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

By switching out that antibody, you can look at a different protein, thus, a different disease potentially any disease in the entire world.

18.Rare diseases

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

It's made a mistake.

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.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

So this is really considerable.

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.

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

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

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

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

Let's move now to a more painful subject.

And I was rather taken aback.

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...

And so it is the case that a great deal of the researchs being conducted today with an eye towards understanding the cause of disease, and identifying possible cures and treatments for disease, is failing to account for this most fundamental difference between men and women.

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.