Reportorial precision for the exact names of sinister diseases and the drugs to treat them alternates with playfulness and even humour.
But what dear readers is even more sinister than disease, destruction and death?
The Chair of the Royal College of GPs calls measles a "sinister and nasty disease".
Drug companies must still worry: Is gene therapy safe for business, or is it, like Rasputin, a treatment whose potential consequences are larger and more sinister than the disease it treats?
9 The majority of patients experiencing dizziness symptoms have peripheral vestibular disorder (including benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), vestibular neuritis and Ménière's disease); serious sinister pathology in patients with no other symptoms is rare.
However, in pathological contexts such as in tumours or during the development of organ fibrosis, this healing response adopts a sinister nature, steering these diseases towards metastasis and organ failure.
A Gynecologist's Second Opinion, published in 2003, opens a chapter on the disease with a sinister warning: "If 'cancer' is one of the most dreaded words in the English language, then for most women, 'ovarian' is the worst adjective to place before it.
The results suggest that the combination of high Cdc20 and securin expression indicates biologically aggressive disease and particularly sinister outcome and could, therefore, be applicable in identifying patients who would benefit from the most effective oncological treatments.
It would be relatively simple for someone with sinister intent to introduce foot-and-mouth disease, or other crippling livestock maladies prevalent on other continents that do not exist in North America, into herds of American livestock, he said.
Rabies is a tragic and frightening disease, and bats have a sinister image.
