Some of you may remember that.

Centers for Disease Control.

There are some great resources out there.

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

So I have for a long time said that what we really needed was a rapid diagnostic.

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

18.Rare diseases

As you can see, Bruce Willis had a lot more hair back then.

I don't know. it's by patient number.

C.D.C. doctors travel to the Ganwar region

Paperless Medical Record and Practice Management

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

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

So we're very much a part of the solution as well as the problem.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

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

A C.D.C. request for additional funding from D.H.S.

It's made a mistake.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

There's no comparison at all.

These are years that we could get.

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.

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

One out of two of you women will be impacted by cardiovascular disease in your lifetime.

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

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

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

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

We think there's a future to this.

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

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

Let's flip the table yet again

Really?

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

The office for disease control reported a 10 percent spread.

Study after study is coming to the same conclusion.

We need to invest more resources into research and treatment of mental illness.

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

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.