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Danon disease; Darier's disease; GLUT1 deficiency; Deficiency of the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist; Degos disease; Dejerine–Sottas disease; Dent's disease; Denys–Drash syndrome; Dercum's disease; Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis; Dextrocardia; Diabetes insipidus; Diffuse infantile fibromatosis; Diffuse panbronchiolitis; Diphallia
The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. Although the parlance "disease-causing gene" is common, it is the occurrence of an abnormality in the parents that causes the impairment to develop within the child.
Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...
Bradley received a diagnosis faster because of his father, but Elly said they still wanted to rule out every other possibility. CJD – while rare – is the most common prion disease in humans ...
New York: Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co., 1895. —...and killing almost 12 percent of the population with cholera and other diseases. HISTORY OF SELECTED PUBLIC HEALTH EVENTS IN CHICAGO, 1834–1999 —...epidemic kills 90,000 Chicagoans... Cartoon showing effect of Cholera in Chicago in 1885 —Over 80,000 people died.
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (/ ˌ f aɪ b r oʊ d ɪ ˈ s p l eɪ ʒ (i) ə ɒ ˈ s ɪ f ɪ k æ n z p r ə ˈ ɡ r ɛ s ɪ v ə /; [1] abbr. FOP), also called Münchmeyer disease or formerly myositis ossificans progressiva, is an extremely rare connective tissue disease in which fibrous connective tissue such as muscle, tendons, and ligaments turn into bone tissue (ossification).
A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose rarity results in little or no funding or research for treatments, without financial incentives from governments or other agencies. Orphan drugs are medications targeting orphan ...
Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago, authorities announced Thursday.