Because primaries tend to be bulky, especially in diameter, plutonium is the fissile material of choice for pits, with beryllium reflectors.

It's made not of a bulky tube, but of a thin layer of a semiconductor material that serves as the gamma detector.

The Indian stove is clearly a work in progress it is too bulky and not durable enough to survive the rigors of an African village.

A rare disease, also referred to as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population.

WASH and disease

Integrated disease control

The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with the raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.

Is Sadness a Disease?

Disease Prevention and Control

But the problem was that the gamma detectors were these huge, bulky tubes, and they were filled with these scintillating crystals, and you just couldn't get them close enough around the breast to find small tumors.

And right now, we know that the biggest disease of all is not a disease. It's corruption.

The global burden of disease is the collective disease burden produced by all diseases around the world.

In medicine, an acute disease is a disease with a rapid onset and or a short course.

Facing Up to Chronic Disease

Infectious disease surveillance and monitoring

A diagnosis of the disease can usually be made based on the signs and symptoms of the disease.

Nodding disease or nodding syndrome is a recent, little known disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s.

Eighty percent of Americans have chronic disease, or 80 percent of age greater than 65 have two or more chronic disease, 140 million Americans have one or more chronic disease, and 80 percent of our 1.5, whatever, trillion expenditures are related to chronic disease.

Most people with the disease are poor and most people with the disease do not realize they are infected.

Kawasaki disease is predominantly a disease of young children, with 80 of patients younger than five years of age.

The original Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease are considered two of the Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan.

In their hearts is a disease , and Allah increaseth their disease . A painful doom is theirs because they lie .

In their hearts is a disease , and Allah increaseth their disease . A painful doom is theirs because they lie .

AIDS had become a chronic disease.

It's a terrible disease. It's fatal.

Is America Catching the British Disease?

First is ignorance about the disease.

It is called sanitation against disease.

Combating disease to the year 2001

In late 1995, two young people were diagnosed with Creutzfeldt Jakob disease a rare disease typically seen in elderly patients.

Cystic fibrosis is an example of a disease where you just have a bad ingredient and you have a disease, and we can actually make a direct correspondence between the ingredient and the disease.

In the personal computing business which moved from the bulky Apple II to the sleek and intelligent iPhone 4s (announced the day before Steve s death) Steve was the only true showman of what is now one of the world s biggest industries.

Since the disease s outbreak, it has been revealed that many common ailments including Alzheimer s disease and Parkinson s disease have similar properties.

Epidemiology Image Hypertensive heart disease world map DALY WHO2004.svg_thumb_225px_Disability adjusted life year for hypertensive heart disease per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.

Treatment The ideal treatment for anemia of chronic disease is to treat the chronic disease successfully, but this is rarely possible.

Smallpox Smallpox was the first disease, and so far the only infectious disease of humans, to be eradicated by deliberate intervention.

A Dutch Cure for the Dutch Disease

This is preventable disease. Waste of life.

The absence of disease is not health.

I have completely got over the disease.

The Lingering Shadow of Mad Cow Disease

The Time is Now to Fight Disease

That he was dying of lung disease?

He lost his mother to the disease.

She died of heart disease in Helsinki.