I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
We'll be investing in basic science research with the goal of curing disease.
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in schools or troops where everyone lives the same life, disease does not strike everyone indifferently.
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.