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

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

Some of you may remember that.

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

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

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

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.

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

These are years that we could get.

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.

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

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

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

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

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.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

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

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

There's no comparison at all.

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?

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

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

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

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

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

Interestingly, one of those birth defects has seen a 200 percent increase in the U.S.