The most common response is disease specific.

They are highly susceptible to skin cancer and eye disorders caused by exposure to the sun s ultraviolet rays.

It's a protein that shows up when your blood vessels might be inflamed, which might be a risk for heart disease.

When the balance tilts too far toward inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease can result.

Prolonged activation of the body s stress system during early development can damage the formation of the neural connections that comprise our brain architecture and set our stress response system at a hair trigger level. We can thus comprehend why children born into such circumstances have more problems in school, are more likely to commit crimes, and are more prone to heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other physical and mental illnesses later in life.

We can thus comprehend why children born into such circumstances have more problems in school, are more likely to commit crimes, and are more prone to heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other physical and mental illnesses later in life.

Babies who have lower birth weights, for example, are more prone to chronic illnesses later in life.

Efforts to predict predisposition to behavior (as opposed to disease) will only compound these conflicts.

Gaza cries out for bone specialists, but the training I need is available only abroad.

Short term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.

Approximately one third of children in the poorest countries are malnourished, and thereby at risk of much greater incidence of infectious disease, learning disorders, and other maladies.

1,849 NGO workers, school teachers and community leaders received training on nutrition and their relationship with disability.

In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders added 112 new mental disorders to its third edition ( DSM III ).

Intestinal parasites such as roundworm, whipworm, and hookworm strip iron from sufferers guts, causing disease and intellectual retardation.

I'm an infectious disease physician, and in the early days of HIV, before we had our medications, I presided over so many scenes like this.

I'm an infectious disease physician, and in the early days of HlV, before we had our medications, I presided over so many scenes like this.

Children and the elderly face graver risks due to susceptibility to infectious diseases, such as malaria, limited mobility and reduced intake of food.

If scientists can decode the genetic code and read the instructions, so the argument goes, they will find the key to human ailments and predict our predispositions.

The commercial stakes are growing as it becomes possible to test for predisposition to common diseases such as breast cancer and heart disease where the potential market is immense.

When well resourced, faith leaders can adopt holistic approaches to major killer diseases and use their networks effectively for immunization and combating pandemics.

So a 12 year old girl raises her hand and says, literally, Apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes genetic disease, we've understood nothing else.

They are producing new drugs that target molecular changes unique to cancer cells, making it possible to predict who may be at risk for developing cancer because of genetic or environmental factors.

Even with 0.6 C warming, however, Africa and South Asia will experience almost immediate reductions in the viability of many crops and, eventually, increased vulnerability to infectious disease.

Children who work in the garbage dumps are prone to skin and respiratory problems, while those who work with paints eventually become addicted to the intoxicants that they inhale.

Vitamin D deficiency creeps up on people, and causes all sorts of health problems to their bones, to their gradual decay of their immune systems, or loss of immune function, and probably some problems with their mood and health, their mental health.

HIV AIDS patients are also prone to other infections an estimated 70 of South Africans with AIDS also contract tuberculosis, while half of those carrying the HIV virus are expected to do so during their lifetime.

LaSalle Leffall, who chaired the President s Cancer Panel, wrote to President George W. Bush in August, saying, We can and must empower individuals to make healthy choices through appropriate policy and legislation. If that is true for encouraging healthy diets and discouraging smoking, it is no less true for lifestyle choices that promote greater mental health.

LaSalle Leffall, who chaired the President s Cancer Panel, wrote to President George W. Bush in August, saying, We can and must empower individuals to make healthy choices through appropriate policy and legislation.

It needs around 6 billion per year in the next three years to cover expansion of programs for the three diseases, but it has only around 3 billion per year from donor countries.

So a little girl who you see just now, she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said, Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else.