So, it's not an option for low income patients.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Some of you may remember that.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

We are more likely to die from the diseases of old age such as cancer, stroke and the number one killer

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

Heart disease.

In addition, it is rarely ordered because pancreatic cancer is, what we call, non symptomatic disease.

Fifty years ago, when I was a medical student in Boston, we were in the midst of the cardiovascular disease epidemic.

And they were competitive about this

And of course, they were right.

These are years that we could get.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

Even just in the last few years, patients with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease have a whole new set of therapeutic options that are directed at this re education process.

I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

The most pressing one is that we want to understand how some differences make some people susceptible to one disease type 2 diabetes, for example and other differences make people more susceptible to heart disease, or stroke, or autism and so on.

There's a lot of mistakes to be made out there, and the immune system makes them.

Medevac, urgent. Severe chest trauma.

And even in the case when a disease occurs in both men and women, that disorder can be much more severe or have more severe consequences in one sex than the other.

And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.

Because 90 of suicides are related to a mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality, there's a long list of disorders that contribute, and as I mentioned before, often early in life.

They die of HlV, they die of hepatitis C, they die of infections of their heart valves, they die of infections of their brains, of their spines, of their hearts, of their bloodstream.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

Possible kidney or bladder irritation. You may wind up with increased bruising and bleeding.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

Let's flip the table yet again

18.Rare diseases

It was a study to specifically ask, what's going on with women?

It is a tiny prick to your finger.

He has a heart condition.

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

He was taken off the Dutch ship in Martinique and died a week later of consumption. Oh...

And there were a few.

It could be seen even onto the patient's body surface by projection mapping.

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.

Of those rats that don't abort, atrazine causes prostate disease in the pups so the sons are born with an old man's disease.

It's a problem that manifests itself in diabetes, obesity, many forms of heart disease, even some forms of cancer when you think of smoking.

This was at a time that treatment actually existed in rich countries.

OK. Now let's move from sleep to diseases.

Died October 12.

It's a protein that shows up when your blood vessels might be inflamed, which might be a risk for heart disease.

They make up a small percentage of the population, but they make up a large percentage of the people in jail, the people who are addicted, the people who are mentally ill, the people who commit suicide.

A health status of a nation parallels development of that nation.