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diseases

  • plural
    of disease.
    disease
    noun
    a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.

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We are likely to see more of these diseases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Consulting firm ZS has built tools for drugmakers designed to screen patients who may have rare diseases, said Bill Coyle, ZS’s region managing principal for Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

More than a billion people around the world are living with obesity, a condition that raises the risk of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

"Our findings suggest that the life history of blood stem cells could influence the risk of brain diseases by altering the microglia," Jaiswal said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone