An invented incurable disease kills off a marriage, a career, a hero's self-esteem.
As recently as the 1950s, polio was a dreaded, incurable disease that killed or paralyzed millions of children each year.
We have worked very hard to take what was an incurable disease and make it curable for 90 percent of the cases.
Seven people thought to have the incurable disease are still alive.
Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte portray an extraordinary (real-life) couple named Michaela and Augusto Odone, whose five-year-old son, Lorenzo, is found to have an extremely rare, ruthlessly degenerative, incurable disease.
Henry Chanin, the headmaster of a private school in Nevada, went in for a routine colonoscopy in 2006 and emerged with a dose of Hep C, a usually incurable disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver cancer and death.
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Johne's Disease (paratuberculosis) is a debilitating incurable intestinal disease in cattle.
Dr Turner, 66, from Bath, had a progressive and incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy.
Oncologists are in the business of providing hope to patients with incurable advanced disease.
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One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
It is an incurable, debilitating disease that slowly renders sufferers increasingly immobile and eventually leads to death.
In the US alone 5.4 million people are estimated to be suffering with what is an incurable and progressive disease causing enormous distress and heartache for both the sufferers and their families.
To date, the disease is incurable.
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And I knew few patients who had chosen it, except maybe in their very last few days, because they had to sign a form indicating that they understood their disease was incurable and that they were giving up on medical care to stop it.
In 1983 researchers found the approximate location of the gene for Huntington's disease, the incurable brain illness.
Angola sealed its border with Congo to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus , an incurable Ebola-like haemorrhagic disease that has killed at least 146 people.
Do you want to know you will get Lou Gehrig's disease if it remains incurable?
Before the onset of his disease, a rare incurable neurological disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus, he was six-foot four and 200 pounds.
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