It was a study to specifically ask, what's going on with women?

Some of you may remember that.

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

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

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

These are years that we could get.

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

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

And we got to do the WlSE study and the WlSE stands for Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation and I have chaired this study for the last 15 years.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

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

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

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

There's no comparison at all.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

Let's flip the table yet again

18.Rare diseases

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

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

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

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

And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease.

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

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

One of the things that we say about all of this female physiology because again, as much as we're talking about women and heart disease, women do, on average, have better longevity than men is that unfolding the secrets of female physiology and understanding that is going to help men and women.

Died October 12.

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

Heart disease.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things

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.

Similarly, we have the tools with which to ask the question

And they were competitive about this

And of course, they were right.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

Remarkably 1.1 million deaths averted every year.

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.

Come on, I'll take you there. ( slow, dramatic theme playing )

There's a lot of mistakes to be made out there, and the immune system makes them.

Is it the fear that two people connected in a social network might develop a blood disorder that interferes with clotting?