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After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Congestive heart failure is a serious disorder that carries a reduced life expectancy. Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors.
Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.