Dr Choudri has coeliac disease himself and knows the importance of a gluten-free diet.
Several studies have linked the Mediterranean diet with a reduced risk of heart disease.
It could be a gene that, defective in some way, predisposes a person to disease.
Scientist: I must confess, I find it difficult to believe in a disease of machinery.
Measles is particularly dangerous in young infants but anyone can get the disease at any time.
The stress of figuring all this out is difficult enough without the terror of the disease itself.
The goal: a drug against osteoporosis, the brittle-bone disease that afflicts 25 million older Americans, mostly women.
Geoff Martin is one of a growing number of people in the UK diagnosed with the disease.
That's the cutting of dead or dying trees that have been left behind by fire or disease.
She had been recovering but disease fed on her weakness, her lungs became infected, her body couldn't fight.
And a disease that creates the conditions that favour its spread is the most dangerous disease of all.
Drug companies want to trace those lines to genes underlying disease, and they will for a price.
In clinical trials these substances have killed germs and showed potential in preventing cancer and fighting heart disease.
Several other approaches for attacking the disease, such as gene therapy, are also under development.
"More than ten years later, patients with Gaucher disease are still coming for therapy, " says Meeker.
Those afflicted by the disease are missing an enzyme that breaks down a particular fat.
Myozyme for Pompe disease, now in its final phase of clinical trials, is potentially next.
With Cerezyme, Genzyme began by figuring out what kind of doctors patients with Gaucher disease visit.
The regulations, brought in following foot-and-mouth disease, are expected to be cut to six days.
But that approval was based on studies suggesting it briefly delayed the worsening of the disease.
This disorder, an autoimmune disease in 7 million Americans, causes a painful, scaly rash.
We are celebrating the end of Guinea worm disease in Ghana in West Africa.
We do this work for the kids who will grow up not knowing Guinea worm disease.
Our dream now is to get rid of the disease in South Sudan, too.
An amazing team of people came together in Ghana to eradicate Guinea worm disease.
The Mail believes the US postal system is facing "paralysis" as fears over the disease spread.
This drug is approved for macular degeneration and is in testing for diabetic eye disease.
The balance comes from the health division, which creates diagnostic drugs for heart disease and cancer.
And this year it received Indian regulatory approval for a treatment of the skin disease psoriasis.
Only wild birds could carry the disease without getting sick, and so disseminate it far.
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