18.Rare diseases

I want to tell you about another disorder.

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.

These are years that we could get.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

Some of you may remember that.

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

He might be, aside from a single medical incident that delayed his career

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

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

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

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.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

He's definitely the star of my show.

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.

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

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

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

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

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

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.

In fact, until very recently, and I'm sure some people still hold it as a view, that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe.

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.

And then he says, And, of course, it wasn't at all.

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?

And I was rather taken aback.

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...

Remarkably 1.1 million deaths averted every year.

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