18.Rare diseases

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Elyn, you don't really understand

And they were competitive about this

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.

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

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.

We don't know how many kids died last week in any of those countries.

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

These are years that we could get.

Some of you may remember that.

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.

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

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

We then take the cells, the vascular cells, blood vessel cells, we perfuse the vascular tree with the patient's own cells.

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

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

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

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

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

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

He's definitely the star of my show.

My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

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

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?

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

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

Heart disease.

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