This poster from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention " Get Smart " campaign, intended for use in doctors ' offices and other healthcare facilities, warns that antibiotics do not work for viral illnesses such as the common cold.

The World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that instrumentation used in such cases be immediately destroyed after use ; short of destruction, it is recommended that heat and chemical decontamination be used in combination to process instruments that come in contact with high-infectivity tissues.

Even today, the procedure is credited with ending the devastation caused by the early epidemics, and vaccination, in many ways an updated and modernized form of the procedure, continues to be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for at-risk populations, such as potential victims of bioterrorism, and research scientists who work with surviving strains of the virus.

Several accidents have reportedly been caused by discharging firearms into the air ; although the evidence in a few such cases has been disputed, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 43 likely cases of injury from falling bullets during 2004 New Year celebrations in Puerto Rico.

Although eating tainted beef can lead to New Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease ( the human variant of mad-cow disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ), there is no known case of BSE having been transmitted through collagen products such as gelatin.

In the United Kingdom and other countries, many of the conditions encountered by older patients such as movement disorders including Parkinson's Disease, stroke, dementia or gait disorders are managed predominantly by specialists in geriatric medicine.

The progression of rheumatoid arthritis can be followed using scores such as Disease Activity Score of 28 joints ().

Researchers are also interested in proteins that can fold into more than one stable configuration ; protein aggregation diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Huntington's Disease as well as prion diseases such as Mad Cow disease can be better understood by constructing ( and deconstructing ) disease models ; the most common way of doing this is by developing a way of inducing the desired disease state in test animals ( administering MPTP to give the animals Parkinson's disease, or knocking out a gene essential for the prevention of certain tumors from the animals ' genomes ).

Examples of crop diseases related to biofilms include Citrus Canker, Pierce's Disease of grapes, and Bacterial Spot of plants such as peppers and tomatoes.

While the debate remains hotly disputed, it is therefore not surprising that a comprehensive review of published studies of gun control, released in November 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was unable to determine any reliable statistically significant effect resulting from such laws, although the authors suggest that further study may provide more conclusive information.

Third spacing of fluids such as peritonitis, osmotic diuresis, or low aldosterone states such as Addisons Disease.

In addition, the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) has recently proposed that such deaths be called " sudden unexpected infant deaths " ( SUID ) and that SIDS is a subset of SUID.

The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) included certain types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma such as Kaposi's sarcoma as AIDS-defining cancers in 1987.

Routine vaccination against meningococcus is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for all 11-18 year olds and people who have poor splenic function ( who, for example, have had their spleen removed or who have sickle-cell disease which damages the spleen ), or who have certain immune disorders, such as a complement deficiency.

It is evident that supply outputs are generating widespread public health issues of obesity and diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases ( NCD ’ s ), such as, Cardio-Vascular Disease ( CVD ), cancer and type II diabetes.

In the soap's anniversary year, the longest standing character, Julia Parsons suffered with Lyme Disease and viewers saw the effect of the disease, such as memory loss and leaving granddaughter Chloe at a zoo.

About 30 percent of men with Peyronie's Disease develop fibrosis in other elastic tissues of the body, such as on the hand or foot, including Dupuytren's contracture of the hand.

Although there is no cure for Peyronie's Disease or fibrotic disorders that are localized in different areas of the body ( Fibrosis ), several clinical studies such as the one mentioned above point to penis extenders as a possible treatment to correct curvature, or at the very least to impede the curvature from getting worse.

In humans the consequences can be deadly, leading to such devastating illnesses as Alzheimer's Disease.

In one case, the misfolded protein is not only deadly to the unfortunate individual in which it has appeared, but it can apparently be passed from one individual to another under special circumstances-producing infectious neurodegenerative diseases such as mad-cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease in humans.

Though twitching is sometimes a symptom of serious diseases such as spinal injury, muscular dystrophy, Lyme Disease, multiple sclerosis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ), it is much more often due to more benign causes ( BFS, over-exertion, etc.

Almost 24 million Americans — one in every 12 — are diabetic and the disease is causing widespread disability and death at an epidemic pace, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some of the commonly encountered conditions treated by neurologists include headaches, radiculopathy, neuropathy, stroke, dementia, seizures and epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, head trauma, sleep disorders, neuromuscular diseases, and various infections and tumors of the nervous system.

According to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), risk factors for BV include douching and having new or multiple sex partners, although it is unclear what role sexual activity plays in the development of BV.

* Polycystic Liver Disease, multiple cysts scattered throughout the normal liver tissue

* Treat autoimmune diseases or diseases that are most likely of autoimmune origin ( e. g., rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematosus, sarcoidosis, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, Crohn's disease, Behcet's Disease, pemphigus, and ulcerative colitis ).

People are commonly exposed to phthalates, and most Americans tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have metabolites of multiple phthalates in their urine.

Set in an affluent neighbourhood of the San Fernando Valley in 1987, the film recounts the life of a seemingly unremarkable homemaker, Carol White ( Julianne Moore ) who develops multiple chemical sensitivity ( MCS, also known as " Twentieth-Century Disease ").

Paralysis results from many sources, stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig's Disease, and congenital sources.

* May is National amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig ’ s Disease ) Awareness Month in the United States.

ATSDR is starting a new registry for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease ).

He had been suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as " Lou Gehrig's Disease ", at the time.

Javits served until 1981 ; his 1979 diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease ) led to a 1980 primary challenge by the comparatively lesser-known Long Island Republican county official Alfonse D ' Amato.

However, Becker's success was hampered by his then-diagnosed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( Lou Gehrig's Disease ) and he was given three to five years to live.

He learns that Carolyn has devised the therapy because she is terminally ill with a syndrome " similar " to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS, or " Lou Gehrig's Disease "), and has been given no more than eight weeks to live.

α-internexin has also been implicated in several degenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson ’ s Disease, neuropathies, tropical spastic paraparesis and HTLV-1 associated myelopathy.

Brown died in Warrenton, Virginia on August 15, 2002 of lower motor neuron syndrome — being diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, since 1999.

Dietary intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids has been shown in several studies to decrease the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS, a. k. a. Lou Gehrig's Disease ).

Gait abnormality is also common in persons with nervous system affections such as Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Myasthenia gravis, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease.

The demonstration of peripheral nerve enlargement along with suggestive clinical signs in a bird that is around three to four months old ( with or without visceral tumors ) is highly suggestive of Marek's Disease.

There she is told by company physician Dr. Gupta ( Ranjit Chowdhry ) she has several brain tumors resulting from a rare neurological disorder called Lampington's Disease.