18.Rare diseases

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

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

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

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

It's made a mistake.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Some of you may remember that.

Then my father allowed me to proceed with my hope.

These are years that we could get.

Stem cell derived retinal transplants, now in a research phase, may one day restore vision, or part vision, to millions of patients with retinal diseases worldwide.

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.

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

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.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

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

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

We think there's a future to this.

Why does this matter?

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

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

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He's got this project to work on,

Let's flip the table yet again

Really?

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

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

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

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

So finally, texture is something.

Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.

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

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

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