And even in the case when a disease occurs in both men and women, that disorder can be much more severe or have more severe consequences in one sex than the other.

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

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.

18.Rare diseases

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.

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

I hasten to add that it's my experience, because everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own way.

Then my father allowed me to proceed with my hope.

So if you override the hunger signal, you can have a disorder, which is called anorexia.

In their final years, Jim and Shirley faced cancers, fractures, infections, neurological illness.

And as a care worker I started looking after a young guy called Nick.

Because 90 of suicides are related to a mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality, there's a long list of disorders that contribute, and as I mentioned before, often early in life.

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.

In addition, it is rarely ordered because pancreatic cancer is, what we call, non symptomatic disease.

We do this by color coding our patients. We call this prioritization process triage.

These are years that we could get.

Lupus a long term, autoimmune disorder with devastating consequences that can result in death, for every man who is suffering from Lupus, there are 6 women who is suffering from this disorder.

What I rather wish to say is that the humanity we all share is more important than the mental illness we may not.

look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.

It's made a mistake.

The project aim is really quite simple.

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

It seems that it's impossible to distinguish an obsessional neurosis from an intense love from a biochemical perspective.

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

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

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

And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.

The most pressing one is that we want to understand how some differences make some people susceptible to one disease type 2 diabetes, for example and other differences make people more susceptible to heart disease, or stroke, or autism and so on.

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.

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.

So let's start with some good news, and the good news has to do with what do we know based on biomedical research that actually has changed the outcomes for many very serious diseases?

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

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

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.