Both conditions are potentially curable before playoff berths are settled.
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Even patients with early, curable cancers often lack key information.
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The Awarables monitor focuses on curable insomnia, not sleep apnea.
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Hep C is curable — but the drugs are astronomically expensive.
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It's curable, the goal is for me to be cured.
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It's a very curable cancer if caught early, which mine was.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria transform easily curable infections into potentially fatal diseases.
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People die of curable diseases for a stark lack of medicine.
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It assumes that all trauma-related conditions are transient and curable.
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"TB is an ancient disease and it is curable," she said.
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Typically, anal cancer spreads slowly and, if caught early, is often curable.
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The condition, in which attacks can last for days, is not curable.
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Leprosy, a bacterial infection, is curable using a combination of three drugs.
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It's the most common curable STI, and it's caused by a parasite.
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Recessions, they argue, are not the result of a curable shortfall of spending.
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"Too many people die from very curable diseases or injuries," the CTO said.
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And it is "potentially totally curable" in healthier patients who receive treatment immediately.
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But what about people who overcome cancer — don't they prove it is curable?
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Infections and cancers that would kill people in the past are now curable.
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He had 12 siblings, five of whom died in childhood from curable diseases.
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He argues that the government's inaction — considering the virus is curable — is inexcusable.
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And when it does spread through wealthier areas, it's generally curable with antibiotics.
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It&aposs usually curable with surgery, and sometimes also requires radiation or chemotherapy.
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Melanoma and other skin cancers are almost always curable if recognized and treated early.
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To be honest we gave up even hoping that her condition might be curable.
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The very early cancer, what we call micro-invasive cancer, is 99 percent curable.
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It is very reasonable to expect more cancers will be curable in the future.
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Cervical cancer screening has turned this uniformly deadly disease into a largely curable one.
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Gonorrhea is curable, and it's treated with a single dose of two separate antibiotics.
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Syphilis is curable, and it's typically treated with a series of three penicillin injections.
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There's nothing great about letting your citizens die from preventable and curable diseases, right?
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Curable, by contrast, is free at first, and ultimately charges all of $5 a month.
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I know that not everyone who tries Curable will be as fortunate as my wife.
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But even then, if it hasn't metastasized, more than half of cases are usually curable.
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Diabetes is much more manageable – and sometimes even curable – for those who control their diet.
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It could be bacteria that are curable with antibiotics, or resistant bacteria, or a virus.
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But there's growing evidence that the aging that kills most of us may be curable.
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Childhood cancers and breast cancers are much more curable now than they used to be.
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Hundreds have died from malnutrition and illnesses that are easily curable with the appropriate treatment.
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" He continued: "Post traumatic stress is a great example of a mental issue that is curable.
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All bacterial STIs are curable with a course of antibiotics if detected at an early stage.
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"She has pneumonia and, well, you know, it's curable," Reid said flatly at a news conference.
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Most harrowing: it's completely preventable, treatable and curable — though most Americans are completely unaware of it.
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It has been curable for decades with a regimen of several antibiotics taken for six months.
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"Plague is curable if detected in time," WHO Madagascar Representative Charlotte Ndiaye wrote in a statement.
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For starters, the international community needs to redouble efforts to fight this preventable and curable disease.
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In the summer of 2014, he announced that he had a "curable" form of throat cancer.
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There are 363 million blind people globally, and in low-income countries, 80% of blindness is curable.
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While syphilis can cause permanent neurological damage, blindness or even death, it is both treatable and curable.
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However, if detected early and while still confined to the breast, it is a highly curable disease.
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" Russo, Weissman's oncologist, said "this was a very specific case ... in a young patient with curable cancer.
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But in all seriousness, I am keeping a positive attitude as cases such as mine are curable.
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And although syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia are curable with medicine, if left untreated, they can be seriously harmful.
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Significantly, most of the women had early-stage breast cancer, which is far more curable than advanced disease.
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Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are curable with antibiotics, but if left untreated they can result in serious complications.
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All three STDs are curable with antibiotics, but most infections go undiagnosed and untreated, according to the CDC.
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Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are all curable with antibiotics, and they're also all preventable with safer sex practices.
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Would you ever believe that nostalgia was once considered to be a curable disease, like the common cold?
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That's because anxiety is not curable, but there are proven ways to reduce anxiety and better manage it.
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Mr. Blankfein revealed last year that he had what he described as a "highly curable" form of lymphoma.
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"The good news is that we caught it early, and cases like mine are very curable," Joe said.
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Challenge trials can speed up vaccine approval, but of course they may be done only with curable diseases.
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Chlamydia is curable, and it's treated with either a single dose or a seven-day course of antibiotics.
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I believe these fears are curable, even if the underlying disease that robs people of such functions is not.
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The bottom line: Climate change is not a problem we can solve, full stop, like diabetes isn't completely curable.
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Severe shortages of food and medicine make daily life a misery and usually curable medical conditions a death sentence.
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While speech therapy is helpful, there is no known cure, nor should stuttering be described as a curable condition.
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But others suffered from leprosy - curable, and now known as Hansen's disease - mental illness or simply had behavioral problems.
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For now, most of those infections are curable, but doctors fear that resistant strains will push out weaker ones.
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"She was young, otherwise healthy, and had a curable disease," said Russo, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
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In May 226, he learned he had Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer that is curable if caught early.
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This revelation suggests improved methods to detect cancer are needed, especially in the early stages when cancers are highly curable.
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According to the CDC, trich is the most common curable STI in sexually active women, and it's cured with antibiotics.
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At least, the bad news was tempered by his medical team's assessment: It was a highly curable form of cancer.
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We should prevent gun deaths the same way we've prevented deaths from cigarette smoking, or car crashes, or curable diseases.
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We didn't have to worry about HIV/AIDS, most sexually transmitted diseases were curable, so the big fear was getting pregnant.
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One day later, he was diagnosed with salmonella, a common and curable infection from contaminated food or water, at Mater Hospital.
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"I am perfectly okay with the fact that I might not be fixable," she writes, knowing that rheumatoid arthritis isn't curable.
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Sadly, this number is expected to triple by 2050, even though the majority of cases would be curable if caught early.
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Not everyone is curable, so the Irish government is still holding masses of infected people in cells, and considering permanent solutions.
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Mr. Blankfein has continued as chief executive since announcing last fall that he is in treatment for "highly curable" lymphoma cancer.
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Simple, curable illnesses can turn into much more serious ones because of a lack of basics such as antibiotics, Ramos said.
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Multiple myeloma, which is the second most common blood cancer in the United States, is generally considered treatable but not curable.
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Cancer is the most curable of the serious chronic diseases (see, for example, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease and lupus).
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Now, suddenly, the advent of gene therapies has opened the prospect that many cancers may be manageable or curable after all.
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Most people with skin cancer have basal cell or squamous cell cancers, which tend to be very curable but expensive to treat.
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One of the pastors who initiated the translation said the group recognised that homosexuality is an inborn trait, not a "curable" one.
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As for the self-esteem issues surrounding such a common, curable condition, it's high time we kicked that stigma to the curb.
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As a global community, we find ourselves at an important moment in the global fight against this curable and preventable infectious disease.
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All had advanced breast cancer, meaning it had recurred after treatment or had begun to spread, and was no longer considered curable.
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As a result, another 56m children are projected to die between 2018 and 2030 from curable ailments such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria.
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"We caught it really early and fast and the doctors say it's operable and curable," she wrote on her website at the time.
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Why it matters: Rapid resistance to antibiotics is a growing health threat to these curable infections, which include chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis.
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"The doctors said it was curable and gave me the most aggressive treatment they had and expected a really good prognosis," she recalls.
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Although, unlike me, he deals with a curable disease, he resembles all cancer patients who must come to terms with the term remission.
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Transmission is through the air from person to person, and infections are typically curable with antibiotics such as isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol or pyrazinamide.
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Multidrug-resistant TB, in which the two most powerful drugs are ineffective, is contagious and curable only about 60 percent of the time.
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Leprosy, which mainly affects the skin, eyes and nerves, is curable with multidrug therapy, which the WHO has made available for free since 1995.
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Thanks to what #Cancerland's founder Champagne Joy calls the "pink-washing" of breast cancer, many Americans believe that it is a completely curable disease.
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Almost 2000 percent of prostate cancer cases are curable, and among the biopsies performed annually, only about one-quarter show cancer in the prostate.
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Yet in all that time, doctors never told him or his husband whether the cancer was curable -- or likely to take Mead-e's life.
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However, he drew sharp criticism for a theory that injecting patients with a curable form of malaria could trigger immunity against the HIV virus.
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The upshot is that the two most common forms of skin cancer (basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas) are highly curable if detected early.
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Sexual orientation, it said, is "an immutable characteristic that is resistant to change"—rebutting a widespread view across Asia that homosexuality is a curable disease.
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From a purely technical perspective, it is reasonable to expect that science will one day turn most cancers into either chronic diseases or curable ones.
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While the church once regarded homosexuality as "curable" and encouraged members to be "forced" into heterosexual marriages, the church has backed off of this recommendation.
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And it could also allow parents to let their children die of curable diseases in a time when religious discrimination on the job is growing.
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In addition, the report found that a lack of clean water and access to health care threatens the lives of many children with curable diseases.
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When my friend's cancer was diagnosed (a type that is almost never curable), I urged him to consider telling his children about their half-sibling.
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So, although snoring is highly curable, the cost and uncertainty of exactly how to do so may be a barrier for many to treat it.
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He argued that this diagnostic revolution, which made previously lethal diseases such as pneumonia, syphilis, and tuberculosis curable or treatable, has also had adverse effects.
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Most harrowing: it's completely preventable, treatable and curable — though most Americans, including Orlaith and Ciaran at the time of Rory's diagnosis, are completely unaware of it.
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If screenings work as intended, the number of small, curable breast tumors should increase, while reducing the number of large cancers by about the same amount.
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It's a terrible illness that is also mostly preventable and curable if caught early enough through regular, standard Pap tests and screening for the human papillomavirus.
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"Hearing, 'You have cancer,' for the first time and then hearing, 'You have non-curable cancer,' there's no other word for that but devastating," Clark says.
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Without effective antibiotics, common bacterial diseases that are curable today will become impossible to treat; childbirth, routine surgeries and even the occasional nick could turn lethal.
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In his first interview after revealing in September that he had a "highly curable" form of cancer, Blankfein said he had undergone 600 hours of chemotherapy.
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"Governor Mark Dayton's prostate cancer was caught early and is localized, treatable and curable," Karl Oestreich, a spokesman for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said.
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Conversion therapy, which can include hypnosis or electric shocks, is based on the belief that being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is a curable mental illness.
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Hodgkin's is one of the more curable cancers of adulthood, but Jason Greenstein was in the unlucky minority of patients who have terrible, prolonged downhill courses.
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According to the American Academy of Dermatology, basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, the two most common forms, are highly curable if detected early and treated properly.
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Tuberculosis, which is curable and preventable, is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), killing 1.7 million people in 2016.
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In the face of climate catastrophe, rising wealth inequality, and a surge in violent racism, what ails America does not seem curable through the special counsel's report.
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And with a proliferation of VR devices now available for reasonable prices, aviophobia could become more curable than ever before—using cameras to soothe, not to scare.
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While it's not curable, the herpes virus doesn't have any serious long-term side effects, and medication can shorten outbreaks and help prevent the infection from spreading.
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Tuberculosis, an ancient and deadly bacterial disease that most commonly affects the lungs, has been curable for decades using a cocktail of antibiotics taken for six months.
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Antibiotics such as penicillin are among the greatest medical advances of human history, rendering curable countless bacterial infections that had always previously amounted to a death sentence.
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He underwent a course of chemotherapy in an attempt to treat and manage the disease, but ultimately it was not curable, and he died on 31 March.
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A screening CT scan for lung cancer carries minimal risks, and 1 out of every 25 scans performed identifies lung cancer (most often early stage and curable).
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Although glaucoma is not curable, treatment to lower pressure in the eye with prescription eye drops and, in some cases, pills or surgery can control the condition.
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Most Venezuelans go hungry daily, many die of curable illnesses because basic medicines are unavailable, and everyone feels unsafe because of an extremely high violent crime rate.
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Earlier in the day, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi also addressed the Munich Security Conference and said the epidemic has proven to be controllable and largely curable.
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But it's curable with an extended vacation or change in assignment, both of which your boss may be glad to accommodate, if it means not losing you forever.
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After talking to a reporter for this story, Bruce Mead-e -- the Delaware man with advanced lung cancer -- decided to ask his oncologist whether his disease was curable.
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"Forms of leukemia that a generation ago were almost universally fatal are now almost universally curable," said Sally Curtin, an author of the report, in a telephone interview.
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The faith is historically tough on the topic of homosexuality and the LGBT community, teaching that what they call "same-sex attraction" is an immoral yet curable condition.
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Since its original publication it has been updated with new information by Motherboard US. What do curable cancer, fair capitalism, and the perfect game of Super Mario Bros.
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Many of the victims were physically or cognitively disabled, and others suffered from mental illness, leprosy - now a curable affliction known as Hansen's disease - or simply had behavioral problems.
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The bottom line: "If you ask me, the number-one priority must be to ensure that people stop dying of a disease that is entirely curable," Alonso told Maxmen.
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"I'm haunted by the idea that other curable genetic diseases have drugs that will work but don't have billionaires, centibillionaires, or us to follow up on them," Vallabh says.
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But in 2012 they looked again at the old X-ray, and saw what should have been noticed at the start: a small mass, plausibly curable at the time.
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Doctors who have been treating Downie in Toronto confirmed during a press conference on Tuesday that his glioblastoma was not curable, but that it shouldn't affect his ability to sing.
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"Here's a disease that's curable, that can be eliminated as a public health problem, but we don't have the will to do it," said Lo Re.[Open Forum Infectious Diseases]
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One day in the year when the world's lens will focus on the fact that almost 4,213 people globally die every day as a result of this preventable, curable disease.
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"What we try to communicate to these patients with Stage 4 disease that even though it may not be curable, you're living with it, not dying from it," he says.
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It may sound odd that cognitive techniques can overcome and eliminate real physical pain, but there is an sizable amount of hard science behind this, which Curable users are walked through.
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Some initial reports hypothesized that his condition might be curable, but more recently there has been speculation about who will replace him after unconfirmed reports that his illness is getting worse.
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Today, HIV and AIDS are treatable although not curable, but even as new infections overall are down, young, gay, Latino, and black men are experiencing a spike in new HIV cases.
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Leukemia, a cancer of those cells in the bone marrow that produce new blood cells, has many varieties, but the most common type in children, acute lymphocytic leukemia, is largely curable.
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The lag time between the development of diabetes and diagnosis of cancer is a potential window of opportunity that may enable cancer detection at an early, curable stage, Dr. Li said.
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I believe a lot of young men die from testicular cancer because they're too embarrassed to go get checked before the cancer gets to a stage where it is no longer curable.
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"They're taking some people that had uncurable diseases and potentially turning them into curable diseases," said Dr. Joshua Brody, director of the Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine.
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Why it matters: These STDs are curable with antibiotics (for now), yet untreated cases are causing severe health problems like infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth in infants and higher risk of HIV infection.
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"The 'what would @brhodes want me to do' attitude by some in NSC is a disease easily curable," the New York lawmaker tweeted, referring to Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
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That fact alone has prompted researchers to seek explanations for other causes and, it is hoped, find ways, in addition to quitting smoking, to prevent it and detect it while still curable.
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If not for the regular checkups she underwent after colon cancer, it is quite likely that her pancreatic cancer, which is rarely found early, would not have been detected while still curable.
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"This observation is the first step toward showing for the first time, to my knowledge, that HIV is a curable disease," said Kamel Khalili, one of the study's lead authors, according to TIME.
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Implicit in her narrative was the idea that autism was curable (if you just tried hard enough, early enough) and avoidable (if only the doctors would listen to the mothers who know best).
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In 2001, the same court awarded damages to 127 leprosy patients who had sued the government, saying in its judgment that the policy was unconstitutional since the disease had been curable for decades.
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Screening blood tests like the Prostate Specific Antigen and imaging studies, including MRI, CT, and PET scans, have evolved to the point where we can identify many cancers while they are still curable.
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Most STDs can be treated, and many are curable, but if they go undetected, they can have life-changing and life-threatening consequences, including cancer, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and increased risk for HIV.
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Last month, Japan passed a law compensating the victims, many of whom were physically or cognitively disabled, while others suffered from mental illness, leprosy, now a curable disease, or simply grappled with behavioral problems.
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The world sees more than 1 million new, curable cases of sexually transmitted infections every day, amounting to more than 376 million new cases annually, according to new data from the World Health Organization.
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If all women were screened, the number of those harmed would be too high relative to the number of women whose lives might be saved by identifying early disease when it would be curable.
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"From now on, we will no longer say that EVD (Ebola virus disease) is not curable," Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, general-director of the DRC's federal medical research institute, told reporters in a call.
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For many people the condition is curable through surgery, but for me that long-ago flash of pain turned out to be only the beginning of an all-consuming, chronic and often embarrassing disability.
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"I think we live in great times for rendering cancer a curable disease but it will take time because the more we learn, the more we understand that it is hugely complex," he told Reuters.
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For many years, "hypochondria of the heart," as it was sometimes called, was considered a "curable disease"; left untreated, the illness could be, and often was, fatal, the mainstream medical community at the time argued.
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If North Korea does not have the ability to cure Warmbier, or if his condition is not curable, it is far better to return him than to let him die in a North Korean prison.
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These problems are eminently susceptible to community-driven remedies, curable by steady, one-on-one work with teenagers and young men, coupled with morality-promoting efforts by the institutions that shape and drive popular culture.
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Robert Mardini, ICRC regional director for the Middle East, said that an average of 20 people die each day from curable disease or war wounds in Yemen where less than half of health facilities still function.
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Too often, when "alternative medicine" is used instead of standard medical treatments, it delays the use of remedies known to be effective and gives an early curable cancer time to grow, spread and ultimately become lethal.
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This is brilliant progression, but it's obvious why it's these illnesses that have been picked up upon: Not only are they the most common mental health conditions, they also fit within the idea of "curable" illnesses.
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One of the most publicized was the 1990 case of David and Ginger Twitchell, accused of manslaughter and neglect in the death of their 2-year-old son, Robyn, who died of a curable bowel obstruction.
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A diagnosis of cancer, even an early-stage, highly curable cancer, can prompt some people to feel as if they've suddenly lost control of their future and that they must do whatever they can to regain it.
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Thanks to everyone's least favorite screening test — the pap smear — cervical cancer has gone from being a leading cause of death in young women in the 1940s to being one of the most preventable and curable cancers today.
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Further, this potentially valuable antibiotic resistance research could help patient care teams stem a grim future where we experience a regression in health and life spans due to no longer having the ability to treat currently curable diseases.
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The vast majority of the infections are easily preventable and curable, but some diseases - in particular gonorrhoea - are evolving into super-bug forms and that are increasingly difficult to treat with antibiotics, the WHO said in a report.
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In the America I know and love, no one should ever be denied the best health care possible based on their income, or wonder if they will die of a curable disease because they can't afford proper coverage.
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"I was so not thinking anything was wrong because I didn't have any symptoms, and she gave me an exam and came around and said, 'Well, I just want you to know, whatever it is, it's curable,' " Cross said.
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By the late 1980s, the disease, a slow-moving bacterial infection notorious for its capacity for producing physical deformities, had been fully curable for several years and was either eradicated from most first-world countries or was very close.
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For those at risk for developing lung cancer, access to lung cancer screening as a life-saving preventive service, now covered under the Affordable Care Act, is key to catching this disease early at it's most treatable, curable stage.
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As Ellie explained, "There was this shitty STD hierarchy," which ranked curable STIs above herpes, and HSV-1 (formerly known as "oral herpes") above HSV-2 (formerly known as "genital herpes"), both of which were considered "better" than HIV.
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This disease is preventable and curable — in fact, Malawi and Ghana recently piloted a new vaccine — but low-income and rural people still die of it because they often lack access to the treatments that could save their lives.
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Sheri Marquez, a radiation oncologist and medical director at the Cecilia Gonzalez De La Hoya Center in California, notes that Newton-John's diagnosis "is not considered curable, but considered treatable" and breaks down what her type of radiation treatment typically entails.
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Although not entirely curable, cancer is often preventable and treatable, with more than 85033 million cancer survivors living with rather than dying from cancer and that number is projected to increase by 31 percent to more than 20 million by 2026.
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Until 1996, a law forced people diagnosed with leprosy, or Hansen's Disease as it is now known, to live in isolated sanatoriums, some surrounded by high fences and guard towers, despite the fact that the illness has been curable for decades.
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Pressured by the organization, India's Supreme Court ruled in September that the government must end discriminatory laws, conduct regular surveillance to detect new cases, provide treatment to everyone who needs it, and promote awareness of leprosy as a curable disease.
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Elsewhere, recent successful efforts have been made to transplant organs from people with once-disqualifying medical conditions like hepatitis C (now often curable with proper medication), as well as to transplant organs from one HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient.[NEJM]
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It's not like there's a syphilis A, B, and C, and not all of them are sexually transmitted and a few are curable, and Baby Boomers are more likely to get Syph-C, and wait, which is the one Steven Tyler had?
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"At GiveVision we have developed a pair of electronic glasses that helps patients with even the most severe cases of un-curable sight loss to see clearly again by projecting a video of real-world into the working part of the retina".
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Navy SEALs are looking into the keto diet to be even more effective on missionsWhile Lyme can be very serious if untreated, it is often curable with antibiotics and wouldn't cause an immediate disruption on the battlefield, like VX or other deadly chemical weapons would.
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Surprisingly, huge numbers of cancer patients lack basic information, such as how long they can expect to live, whether their condition is curable or why they're being prescribed chemotherapy or radiation, said Dr. Rab Razzak, director of outpatient palliative medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
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Typically, the checks it receives are earmarked for specific initiatives that matter to a donor, like bringing technology to workers focused on maternity and neo-natal health issues, or developing analytics that help health workers understand the spread of a vaccine-curable disease like malaria in a particular region.
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It identified 31 percent of patients with future breast cancer as high risk, while the current clinical standard identified only 18 percent Dr. Barzilay and her collaborators want to usher in the day when no woman is surprised by a late-stage diagnosis and when all breast cancers are curable.
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The defunding of local public health programs in 2008—via reduced funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which supports state and local health departments—and a collapse in state government support for local infectious disease programs have let this completely preventable and curable illness re-emerge.
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Strange as it may seem, the disorder isn't exactly uncommon: The Trichotillomania Learning Center Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) estimates that some 1 or 2 in every 50 people experience the disorder, also referred to as "trich" (but not to be confused with trichomoniasis, the common and curable STD).
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According to the National Institute of Health, "trich" is considered the most common curable STD, affecting 120 million worldwide, including 3.7 million in the US. The CDC estimates 2.3 million of those cases are women age 14-49—women are more likely to be infected and more likely to experience symptoms (sorry, ladies).
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With the theme of motion in full swing, it's pretty funny that the only work obviously not based on a picture taken from a moving vehicle is "Waiting Room 1" (45 x 33 inches, UV curable ink on mirrored Dibond; 2017), which depicts a place where you're meant to stay put for a while.
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"We think this study is a major breakthrough because it for the first time demonstrates after 40 years of the AIDS epidemic that the HIV disease is a curable disease," said study co-author Dr. Kamel Khalili, chair of the department of neuroscience and director of the Center for Neurovirology and the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Center at Temple University.
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Change should be a certainty in a country where people are starving; where many die of curable illnesses because basic medicines are unavailable; where everyone faces hyperinflation that's soon expected to exceed 13,000 percent; where they're afraid to go out because the murder rate is the world's second-highest; and where the government doesn't know a human right it hasn't violated.
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But Curable is the first attempt I've seen to take modern chronic pain treatment, wherein the pain is treated as a reversible consequence of neurological sensitization, and make it easily and readily available to the teeming, thronging, overwhelming masses of people who are suffering; and while I'm obviously heavily biased from my own experience with it, I can't help but think that an enormous number of them could benefit hugely.
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In a recent study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine of 281 patients with potentially curable cancers of the breast, lung, colon-rectum or prostate that had not yet spread beyond their site of origin, the use of alternative medicine in lieu of conventional cancer treatments resulted in an overall death rate two and a half times higher than the rate experienced by patients getting standard therapies.
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