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Disease (Lady Gaga song)

Disease is a 2024 Lady Gaga song released October 25, 2024 on Interscope as lead single of Mayhem (LG7); dark industrial dance-pop written with Polansky, Watt, and Cirkut, peaking at number 7 in the UK.

Disease activity measures and treat-to-target in rheumatoid arthritis

Disease activity measures in rheumatoid arthritis, including DAS28, CDAI, SDAI, and Boolean criteria, guide treat-to-target: adjusting therapy until remission or low disease activity is reached.

Disease activity score

The disease activity score (DAS) is a composite clinical index for rheumatoid arthritis that combines joint counts, patient global assessment, and ESR or CRP to guide treatment.

Disease Management

Disease management, also called disease state management or chronic disease management, is coordinated healthcare for chronic conditions using guidelines, self-management support, and multidisciplinary teams; originated in 1990s US managed care, now evolved into population health management.

Disease management in bivalve aquaculture

Disease management in bivalve aquaculture is the set of surveillance, regulatory, biosecurity, and breeding practices used to prevent, detect, and limit infectious disease in farmed oysters, mussels, and clams.

Disease mapping

Disease mapping is the set of statistical methods for estimating and displaying how disease risk varies across small geographic areas, typically by smoothing unstable local rates.

Disease Outbreaks

A disease outbreak is when cases exceed the expected baseline in an area, group, or period; larger spread is an epidemic, and a worldwide one is a pandemic.

Disease progression modeling

Disease progression modeling is a biostatistical method using mathematical models to describe a disease's trajectory over time and separate natural progression from drug effects in drug development.

Disease registry

Disease registry: an organized system collecting uniform records on cases of a disease or condition in a defined population, used for surveillance, research, and quality improvement; examples include SEER cancer registration, Danish national registries, and AHA Get With The Guidelines registries.

Disease resistance, N-terminal

Rx_N (PF18052, IPR041118), the N-terminal domain of plant CC-type NLR disease resistance proteins; about 83 amino acids, four-helical bundle fold, named after potato Rx PVX resistance protein, interacts with NB-ARC and RanGAP2 WPP domain.

Disease risk score

A disease risk score (DRS) is an epidemiology confounder summary method that condenses many patient covariates into a single predicted probability of disease, serving as the prognostic analog of the propensity score.

Disease X

Disease X is a placeholder name the World Health Organization uses for a hypothetical unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic or pandemic.

Disease-Free Survival

Disease-free survival (DFS), also called relapse-free survival (RFS), is an oncology clinical trial endpoint measuring time after primary treatment without signs or symptoms of cancer; the FDA accepts it as a surrogate for overall survival in adjuvant settings such as resected colon cancer, melanoma, renal cell cancer, GIST, breast cancer, and stage III NSCLC.

Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug

Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), including methotrexate, leflunomide, sulfasalazine, hydroxychloroquine, biologics, and JAK inhibitors, slow rheumatoid arthritis progression; methotrexate is the anchor csDMARD.

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century: cholera pandemics from 1817, yellow fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, and malaria; John Snow's 1854 Broad Street investigation, germ theory, and the first international sanitary agreements.

Diseases and parasites in salmon

Diseases and parasites in salmon: sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis), infectious salmon anemia virus, PRV, and bacterial pathogens such as Piscirickettsia salmonis, affecting farmed and wild salmonids, with drug resistance, treatment timing, and regulation as distinguishing issues.

Diseases of aroid foliage plants

Diseases of aroid foliage plants are the bacterial, fungal, and viral disorders of ornamental arum family (Araceae) crops, most seriously Xanthomonas bacterial blight of Anthurium.

Diseases of bees

Diseases of bees: six WOAH-listed honey bee diseases (American and European foulbrood, acarapisosis, small hive beetle, Tropilaelaps, varroosis), their causes, spread, and control under the Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

Diseases of hard tissues of teeth

Diseases of hard tissues of teeth (ICD-11 DA08) covers conditions affecting enamel, dentine, or cementum: dental caries, attrition, abrasion, erosion, abfraction, resorption, chronic dental injuries, nontraumatic fracture, and deposits, aggregated from ICD-10 K02 and K03.

Diseases of immune dysregulation

Diseases of immune dysregulation, also called primary immune regulatory disorders (PIRDs), are IUIS Table 4 inborn errors of immunity (ICD-11 4A01.2) where autoimmunity, hyperinflammation, lymphoproliferation, or atopy predominates over infection susceptibility; examples include ALPS, IPEX, APECED, and familial HLH.

Diseases of jaws

Diseases of jaws (ICD-11 DA06; ICD-10 K10) are conditions of the maxilla and mandible not classified elsewhere: inflammatory bone disease, alveolitis, exostosis, Stafne cavity, plus jaw cysts, osteonecrosis, and tumors.

Diseases of metabolism

Diseases of metabolism (metabolic disease, DOID:0014667; Reactome R-HSA-5668914) are disorders of disrupted biochemical processes, including inborn errors of metabolism such as PKU, galactosemia, MSUD, and urea cycle disorders, plus acquired cardiometabolic diseases.

Diseases of poverty

Diseases of poverty: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and increasingly NCDs that disproportionately affect the poorest populations, driven by poor water, sanitation, nutrition, and healthcare access, with burden, interventions, and post-2023 trends.

Diseases of salivary glands

Diseases of salivary glands (ICD-10 K11, ICD-11 DA04) cover stones, sialadenitis, Sjögren disease, IgG4-related sialadenitis, and benign or malignant tumors of the parotid, submandibular, sublingual, and minor glands.

Diseases of the colon and rectum

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (Dis Colon Rectum, ISSNs 0012-3706 and 1530-0358) is the ASCRS's monthly peer-reviewed colorectal surgery journal, founded in 1958 under editor Louis A. Buie and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins since 2009.

Diseases of thymus

Diseases of thymus (ICD-11 4B40): thymic hyperplasia, thymic abscess, Good syndrome, and thymic epithelial tumors (thymoma, thymic carcinoma), rare mediastinal neoplasms linked to myasthenia gravis and treated mainly by surgery.

Diseases of tongue

Diseases of tongue, ICD-10 K14 and ICD-11 DA03, are disorders of tongue surface, movement, or sensation. Common forms are geographic, fissured, and black hairy tongue; leukoplakia and squamous cell carcinoma are the main serious lesions.

Diseconomies of scale

Diseconomies of scale are the forces that make a firm's long-run average cost rise as its output or size grows, the mirror image of economies of scale, arising from bureaucracy, control loss, and communication overhead.

Diselenide chemistry

Diselenide chemistry concerns organic compounds containing a selenium–selenium single bond, R–Se–Se–R, and the exchange reaction diselenide metathesis, which enables self-healing polyurethane thermosets and visible-light-programmable liquid crystal elastomers.

Disembodied (band)

Disembodied was an American metalcore band from Minneapolis, formed in 1995, known for its downtuned guitars and panic chords, and cited as a foundational influence on the metalcore revival.