We have worked very hard to take what was an incurable disease and make it curable for 90 percent of the cases.

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By inventing an incurable disease, he can meditate on its impact on a marriage, on a career, on a character's self-esteem without dragging in the baggage of a familiar illness.

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An invented incurable disease kills off a marriage, a career, a hero's self-esteem.

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It is an incurable, debilitating disease that slowly renders sufferers increasingly immobile and eventually leads to death.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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