18.Rare diseases

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

These are years that we could get.

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

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

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

It's made a mistake.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

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

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

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

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

But when it doesn't, we have to do something about that, therapeutically.

The death of Little Nell and Cordelia and all that sort of stuff just doesn't happen anymore.

Let's flip the table yet again

Really?

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

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

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

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

So the way we develop drugs now is by testing promising compounds on

Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.

Now, that inability to properly pump not just the cell, but the whole heart that is heart failure.

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

So we know how to do this in many of the ways that are up there.

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

These little chippies, these things are the size of a credit card.

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

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

Let's move now to a more painful subject.

He's definitely the star of my show.