71.   Indeed, among those with rare diseases, Shea is considered a success story.

72.   Instead, Terry learned that she and her husband, Patrick, had passed on a rare genetic disease to their two young children.

73.   Instead, she suffers from a rare disease called intestinal pseudo-obstruction, a painful condition that can have symptoms from weight loss to cramps to constipation.

74.   It is constantly raspy and hoarse, a daily reminder that he suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a rare disease that affects the vocal cords.

75.   It is too small to be definitive, he said, and would not have detected even a fivefold increased risk in very rare diseases like scleroderma or polymyositis.

76.   It treated a rare disease and generated only modest sales by pharmaceutical standards.

77.   It motivates the executive but can divert corporate attention to, say, a rare disease offering only limited sales for its products.

78.   It remains classified, at this point, as a rare disease.

79.   Jeff has spina bifida, a rare congenital disease that has left him partially paralyzed.

80.   Kirstin Wallin suffers from scleroderma, a rare disease of the immune system that kills cruelly by attacking connective tissue, causing hardening of the skin and internal organs.