| Fun quiz! In addition to Esme's suggestions, another one is JFK/Helen Reddy (Addison disease). Also, you should accept the singular version of many of these conditions - Alzheimer, Parkinson, etc. There's a movement in the medical community to drop the possessive s at the end of the disease names, because most of the people who named the disease didn't actually have the condition. With ALS, calling it "Lou Gehrig's disease" is fine, because he actually had the condition, but Alzheimer did not, so it should just be "Alzheimer disease." Most of the general public still uses the possessive form, but the singular form should be accepted as well. |