But the deadly disorder is now affecting more older women, ethnic women, and men.

WebMD Features For insights into this deadly eating disorder, WebMD asked five women to tell their personal stories about living with anorexia.

While it hardly needs to be pointed out that starving yourself is not good for you, bulimia is in its own inexorable if less direct way also a deadly disorder.

The organization offers public education, support groups and money for research on this potentially deadly genetic disorder that can affect the heart, skeleton, lungs, eyes and blood vessels.

In children, Dr. Fauci said, the most serious risk is encephalitis, a potentially deadly disorder that causes inflammation of the brain.

As many as 35,000 Jews are tested each year to see if they carry the mutation for Tay-Sachs disease, a deadly neurological disorder.

It was difficult to tell that this was the flashpoint, the epicenter where years of racial resentments exploded into the deadly disorders that rocked Los Angeles last year.

Marfan's is a highly variable but potentially deadly disorder of connective tissue involving a defect in a protein called fibrillin.

Pulmonary fibrosis, the chronic lung disease that doctors believe killed Officer Cesar A. Borja, is a rare and deadly disorder whose causes are poorly understood.

Jacobi neurologists isolated chemical markers which made it possible to identify carriers of Tay Sachs disease, a deadly genetic disorder.