AIDS had become a chronic disease.

Sami was struck down by a mystery illness.

Far from being a disease, youth is a cure.

In Africa where it is a major killer it is totally ignored.

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

Addiction to e mail is increasingly being recognized as a malady.

It is not a disease or a disorder, and therefore it does not automatically require any kind of medical treatment.

In 2002 for example, two of the top 10 health seeking reasons were asthma and acute respiratory illnesses.

Instead, the afflicted were ostracised from their community due to ignorance about the disease, as people were afraid that it was contagious.

Would you get in an airplane with 250 people you didn't know, coughing and sneezing, when you knew that some of them might carry a disease that could kill you, for which you had no antivirals or vaccine?

In late November and early December 1623 he suffered a nearly fatal illness, thought to be either typhus or a combination of a cold followed by a period of fever.

Over 80 major diseases have been cracked at the genomic level, but this is quite extraordinary More has been learned about the underpinnings of disease in the last two and a half years than in the history of man.

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.

And what was good about psychology, about the 30 billion dollar investment NIMH made, about working in the disease model, about what you mean by psychology, is that, 60 years ago, none of the disorders were treatable it was entirely smoke and mirrors.

In about 80 per cent of the territory it is considered to be an endemic disease that is actively transmitted in 19 of the 23 departments and is concentrated in areas with the highest proportion of rural and indigenous populations where more than 40 per cent of the country's inhabitants are at risk.