11.   As a result, many assumptions of how diseases affect women were wrong.

12.   Diseases often affect taste.

13.   Editor Nell Casey and her sister Maud, who has manic-depression, write about how the disease affects a family.

14.   Even reading can be impossible because the disease affects the eyes.

15.   Eventually, the disease affects motor functions and often results in dramatic mood swings and erratic behavior.

16.   For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has grappled with the fact that the disease disproportionately affects blacks.

17.   Fortunately, the disease has not affected his intelligence.

18.   GAPDH is expressed in every cell in the body, yet each CAG-repeat disease affects a different set of brain cells, Strittmatter said.

19.   Her disease did not affect her ability to get around and communicate.

20.   In some ways, rare diseases affect everyone.