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disease noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, invalidism, loss of health, malady, morbus, plague, scourge, sickness, taint, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesome condition, virus, weakness See also: contaminate, disorder, pain, taint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Metabolex is partnering with Ortho-McNeil, a Johnson & Johnson company, to develop and commercialize products for diabetes and metabolic disease, including Metabolex's lead drug candidate, metaglidasen, a second-generation insulin sensitizer now in a Phase 2/3 clinical trial. The blood screenings have become a fundraiser for laboratory employee Neannie Patterson's granddaughter, who has been diagnosed with a rare metabolic disease. A biological marker may have little or nothing to do with the causes of a disease, Small and Greenberg caution, although platelet abnormalities could indicate alzheimer's is a metabolic disease extending well beyond the brain. |
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