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  2. Corticobasal degeneration - Wikipedia

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    The presence of parkinsonism as a clinical symptom of CBD is largely responsible for complications in developing unique diagnostic criteria for the disease. [4] Other such diseases in which parkinsonism forms an integral diagnostic characteristic are Parkinson's disease (PD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Parkinsonism in CBD is ...

  3. International Health Regulations - Wikipedia

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    Logo of the World Health Organization. The International Health Regulations (IHR), first adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1969 and last revised in 2005, are legally binding rules that only apply to the WHO that is an instrument that aims for international collaboration "to prevent, protect against, control, and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ...

  4. Primary progressive aphasia - Wikipedia

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    A third variant of primary progressive aphasia, LPA was then added, [15] and is an atypical form of Alzheimer's disease. For PNFA, the core criteria for diagnosis include agrammatism and slow and labored speech. Inconsistent speech sound errors are also very common, including distortions, deletions, and insertions.

  5. Progressive education - Wikipedia

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    Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement.

  6. Eugenics - Wikipedia

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    Lester Frank Ward wrote the early paper: "Eugenics, Euthenics and Eudemics", making yet further distinctions. [15] Having presented papers at eugenics conferences alongside fellow Nobel prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, Hermann J. Muller and Francis Crick, as late as 1963 [16] and equally concerned over the civilizational prospect of dysgenics, [17] Jewish geneticist Joshua Lederberg ...

  7. Sarcopenic obesity - Wikipedia

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    Sarcopenic obesity is a combination of two disease states, sarcopenia and obesity.Sarcopenia is the muscle mass/strength/physical function loss associated with increased age, [1] and obesity is based off a weight to height ratio or body mass index (BMI) that is characterized by high body fat or being overweight.

  8. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia or advanced heart disease than for injury. In popular use, it indicates a disease that will progress until death ...

  9. McDonald criteria - Wikipedia

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    (primary progressive MS) New criteria: One year of disease progression (retrospectively or prospectively determined) and two or three of the following: 1. Evidence for DIS in the brain based on 1 or more T2 lesions in the MS-characteristic (periventricular, juxtacortical, or infratentorial) regions 2.