Shyness is an illness, and it's curable.

Malaria is, however, a disease that is preventable, treatable and curable.

People are dying from curable diseases in South Central Los Angeles.

this is a curable disease, with present medicine and present technology.

However, drug abuse is curable if we use the right medicines or vaccines.

And now, 14 of the disorders are treatable, two of them actually curable.

One out of every five African children today succumbs to starvation, malnutrition or an easily curable disease.

(f) To encourage cooperation programmes in the health sector which will help to combat pandemics and curable diseases

Poverty, hunger, preventable and curable diseases, illiteracy, drugs and natural disasters are other threats and challenges facing today's world.

Thus, small early cancers, even though not acted on immediately, were still entirely curable (Sickles, Radiology , 179 463 468, 1991).

More than 20,000 people die daily because of poverty and diseases yet, many of those diseases are preventable and curable.

The development of TB chemotherapy from the 1940 s through the 1970 s transformed the once deadly white plague into a curable disease.

Poverty is one of the greatest killers of all, while easily curable diseases still claim 15 million lives every year 25 of all deaths.

What we've discovered is the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.

We see children who we know will never see the inside of a classroom, and young and old people who will die of dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis and other curable diseases.

I am convinced that underdevelopment, poverty, starvation, the fatal outcome of otherwise curable diseases and the lack of even basic education create an environment in which terrorists are bred and recruited.

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.

Something like 98 percent of all people with depression, and I mean really severe depression I have a friend with stunningly severe depression this is a curable disease, with present medicine and present technology.

Obsession with doom and gloom scenarios distracts us from the real global threats. Poverty is one of the greatest killers of all, while easily curable diseases still claim 15 million lives every year 25 of all deaths.

Just as our own nation has launched new reforms to ensure that every child has adequate health care, we must do more to get basic vaccines and other treatments for curable diseases to children all over the world.

Perhaps a maximally extended life expectancy is of higher value to you than living in a society where doctors do not leave curable patients to die if they cannot pay for the required treatment out of their own pockets.

But what is not acceptable is the way that people with leprosy, those cured of it, and even their family members continue to be discriminated against on the basis of fears, myths, and outdated notions about a disease that is today completely curable.

The huge social cost of those imbalances manifested itself in hunger, illiteracy, lack of hygiene, the abandonment of children, unemployment, a high mortality rate and the persistence of curable diseases, including fresh outbreaks of malaria and cholera in Africa and Latin America, respectively.

I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

Aside from a rise in the incidence of thyroid cancer (which proved in almost all cases to be curable), the Forum found no profound negative health impacts on the exposed population as a whole and also no widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health.