It brings many once uncommon ailments, led by heart disease.
Big pharmas infatuation with mass-market drugs meant some companies were slow to pick up on the market for high-price medicines narrowly targeted to particular cancers and some uncommon ailments.
In the late 80s and early 90s, researchers – using the tools of modern molecular biology – were starting to pinpoint single genes that were responsible for deadly but relatively uncommon inherited ailments such as cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease and muscular dystrophy.
The Chinese tend to use traditional medicine in conjunction with western medicine for minor, well-understood or common health problems; for uncommon or more serious ailments they often seek biomedical treatment [ 35, 37, 59].
Husband consulted doctor about it, who said ailment was not uncommon or alarming.
Officials from the Orange County Environmental Health Department say that skin rashes, infections, "pink eye" and other assorted ailments are not uncommon to those who use Aliso Beach and, unwittingly, come in contact with the creek and its invisible bacteria... .....
While suicide and accidental deaths are still much more likely to happen in the severely mentally ill relative to general population, these are still relatively uncommon, whereas there is a doubling or tripling of the mortality from heart disease, diabetes, respiratory ailments, and cancer.
These diseases represent a massive collection of disorders that afflict fewer than 200,000 individuals for any single ailment," says Stephen Groft, a key figure in revolutionizing the care and research of uncommon diseases when he directed the Office of Rare Disease Research (ORDR) in the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
As more of the cohort ages onto Medicare, our sample will grow larger and allow for evaluating risks for additional ailments, but it would take a very large sample to study very uncommon diseases.
