Some of you may remember that.

18.Rare diseases

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

It's made a mistake.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

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

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

Then my father allowed me to proceed with my hope.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

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

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

Why does this matter?

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

We think there's a future to this.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

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

How does that play out in terms of application to a disease?

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

Let's flip the table yet again

These are years that we could get.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

She suffers from a chronic illness.

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

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

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

Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.

My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

Elyn, you don't really understand

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

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

Let's move now to a more painful subject.

And I was rather taken aback.

Really?

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.

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

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

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