Dr Turner, 66, from Bath, had a progressive and incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy.
In 2009 Mr. Rainwater was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disease.
The progressive and degenerative form of epilepsy affects fewer than 200 people in the world.
May Murphy, who had a degenerative disease, took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end her life.
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Antonio Tessitore of Villa Literno, Italy, had to give up his job after developing a degenerative muscular disease.
The vast majority die at a young age, and most are never rescued from the specter of degenerative disease.
"He's lost 105lb (47.7kg) and has developed degenerative arthritis and a mass behind his right shoulder blade, " she said.
Her husband Ronald, who was the American leader between 1981 and 1989, also suffers from the degenerative brain disease.
He knew that his powers were diminishing he disclosed last year that he was suffering from Parkinson's, a degenerative disease.
The latter of these three had seen him catch an infection which had led to degenerative kidney disease, he added.
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An avid football player in high school, Riley later contracted an intensely painful degenerative back disease known as rheumatoid spondylitis.
The charity said the survey results painted a deeply disturbing picture about public attitudes towards those living with the degenerative disease.
He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
He was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain ailment that is caused by repeated blows to the head.
They say their criteria apply to conditions which are considered lower priority, not surgery following trauma, cancer, degenerative or other conditions.
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The inquest heard it was a "gentle" push but that a degenerative brain condition made Mr Phillips unsteady on his feet.
That's an inherited degenerative disorder of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Doctors diagnosed Funicello with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease, in 1987.
Heart failure is a degenerative, terminal disease affecting more than 20 million patients worldwide and causing more than 7.25 million deaths each year.
This is what Diane Pretty, a British woman with a fatal degenerative condition called motor neurone disease, wants to do, by committing suicide.
He was 62, and an autopsy found that he had the degenerative brain disease CTE, thought to be caused by head trauma.
He suffers from a degenerative bone disorder in his hip and has had surgery for prostate cancer, a quadruple heart bypass and a double knee replacement.
Degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's may turn out to be more difficult to model because they involve the failure of more than just brain cells, Markram says.
Ms MacDonald's bill would allow people whose lives became intolerable through a progressive degenerative condition, a trauma or terminal illness to seek a doctor's help in dying.
The United Nations health agency said it would convene a major meeting of experts and officials from all regions on the neuro-degenerative diseases striking cattle and humans.
At a time when the U.S. population is aging and needs innovative new medicines for a wide spectrum of degenerative and infectious diseases, they are not what the doctor ordered.
Of that 60%, Goldstein says, he is able to significantly extend the quality of life for 50% of cancer patients and 80% of non-cancer patients with degenerative diseases.
It examines the claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict people can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
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She said the study suggested that in people with degenerative brain diseases, memories were not erased from the brain, but rather could not be accessed because of the disease.
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