Her major achievements were the classification of the peripheral neuropathies and hereditary ataxias, the first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease ( in Kearns-Sayre syndrome ) and the identification of trinucleotide repeats in degenerative neurologic diseases ( e. g. Huntington's disease ).

Her mother, Maria Theresa, caught it and, though she survived, she suffered from the effects of the disease for the rest of her life.

Her husband Burgundy, who had reputedly remained by her side all through her sickness, was heartbroken by her death and died the same week of the same disease.

Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own modus operandi: in the later stages of her disease, she had morphine administered at home by a doctor.

Christie portrayed the female lead in Away from Her, a film about a long-married Canadian couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease.

Her second marriage, to former Labour minister Alex Lyon, turned to tragedy: he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died in 1993.

Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a writer and producer who died of heart disease ; her father, Boris Sagal, was a director, born in the Ukraine, who died in an accident on the set of the television movie World War III.

Her youngest child, Katharine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf.

Her evil deeds included ( but were not limited to ), slaying children, unborns, and neonates, causing harm to mothers and expectant mothers, eating men and drinking their blood, disturbing sleep, bringing nightmares, killing foliage, infesting rivers and lakes, and being a bringer of disease, sickness, and death.

Her courage and candor, and that of her family, were a great public service in bringing worldwide attention to a disease which we all hope will soon be cured.

Her tenure included record farm income, record agricultural exports and the creation of stronger pest and disease protection systems for the country.

Her interpersonal relationships are completely online and on the phone, limiting interactions with neighbors, and her mother ( Diane Baker ) who is institutionalized with Alzheimer's disease.

Her health failing slowly from Bright's disease, she died in the White House on August 6, 1914.

Her cause of death was reported as alcoholism or alcoholic liver disease.

Her goal was to get word out about ankylosing spondylitis and help support others with this disease.

Her studies involved using DHA as an oral drug for assisting children with glycogen storage disease.

The music was aggressive and unrelenting, but also included spacious songs like " When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros ", " Her Middle Name is Boom ", " Piano " and the epic " Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence ", the latter of which deals with Palumbo's problems with Crohn's disease.

Her only child, Catherine Ann Salmi, died in 1995 at age 38 from heart disease.

The premise is noticeably similar to " Consider Her Ways ," a 1964 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents where every the world adopts a matriarchal society after a disease kills every man on Earth.

Her youngest son, Mikey Connolly, had fell ill with a mysterious disease.

Her mother, Phyllis Kagan, is a breast cancer survivor who has appeared on CNN discussing the disease.

Her husband later developed Alzheimer's disease, dying after a ten-year struggle with the illness.

Her child soon died of an unknown disease as well.

Her temper sparked like charcoal when it first lights up.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her first published work was a critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, which she wrote in sixteen days.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Her first school was located in a 17th-century house.

Her first act surprises Odrade greatly.

Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay.

Her report, Work Accidents and the Law ( 1910 ), became a classic and resulted in the first workers ' compensation law, which she drafted while serving on a New York state commission.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.