But many traditional leaders and politicians continue to assume that the disease primarily afflicts whites and foreigners.
That same group of hard-to-diagnose and hard-to-treat diseases – lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, but also chronic fatigue, chronic headache and fibromyalgia – primarily afflicts women.
Most attempts to improve longevity today focus on the diseases that primarily afflict the old — cancer, heart disease, stroke, arthritis — which means it is now much more likely that saving people from one disease may only result in their getting sicker and sicker with another.
Notwithstanding Lance Armstrong's spectacular victory in the 1999 Tour de France three years after treatment for advanced testicular cancer, there is no question that this disease, which primarily afflicts young men, is best detected and treated while in its early stages, still confined to the testicle in which it developed.
A recently formed public-private partnership will on Saturday formally announce agreements to screen tens of thousands of drug candidates from Japanese private and public sector compound libraries for treatments for illnesses that primarily afflict the poor in developing countries.
Hernias often are considered a problem that primarily afflicts men, and in fact, they are far more prevalent in males -- women account for only about 8percentt of diagnosed hernias in the United States.
In June, the U.S. marked 35 years since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of a puzzling illness that was initially thought to primarily afflict gay men and would eventually become the global pandemic known as HIV/AIDS.
Much of the research pharmaceutical companies do conduct is simply not relevant to public health concerns, with money pouring into projects for hair loss, for instance, while funding for diseases that primarily afflict the poor, like tuberculosis, stays in perpetual short supply.
The molecular mechanisms that lead to glaucoma are not well established but are of significant biomedical interest given that glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, and early-onset myocilin glaucoma accounts for ∼4% of glaucoma cases, primarily afflicting children [1].
67– 69 CLI has an estimated incidence of 500 1000 per million per year and primarily afflicts elderly patients with diabetes mellitus.
