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Name Just One Disease/Illness You Wish Cured

It's tough to pick just one but I would really like to find a cure for A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's disease).
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reply to Zhen-Xjell
No doubt about what I want to help find a cure for, AIDS.
I hope we find many cures, all cures, but for me personally it's AIDS.
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reply to Zhen-Xjell
Sorry, friend. Can't pick just one. I'd like to pick them all off, one by one. The sequence is not important to me, nor how long it takes. I've lost dear friends to various forms of cancer, a beloved grandfather to diabetes, and have seen others go down with a variety of degenerative diseases. So, just find a cure for one, then the next, and so on...

reply to Zhen-Xjell
It's difficult to pick just one. I've lost friends and loved ones to various diseases, as I'm sure everyone has. I think if I was forced to pick one it would be HIV. The begining phase of AIDS. That seems to be the one I'm personally most afraid of, and have lost more people I care about to that than any other.
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reply to Zhen-Xjell
My mother has been very ill with cancer for the last 18+ months.Seeing what she has gone through personally,as well as what the rest of us as a family has gone through, to say the least, is devastating.I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy.So for me,its cancer
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reply to dbmaven
I understand your feelings completely. My grandmother went pretty badly to Pulmonary Edema and Alzheimer's. My uncle has MS. My wife's father lung cancer, and the list goes on.

From my perspective tonight, I feel for the children. They have started off life on the "wrong" foot. For my elders, they have at least lived their lives. These children with Progeria, never started on the same map we did.

reply to CircuitBreaker
stupidity. The disease of ignorance.

reply to Zhen-Xjell
I wish there were a cure for cancer...I wish all disease had
cure but unfortunately were not that lucky.
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reply to auto
Auto, I'd like that too, but fortunately we already have a cure for that. People can learn and become smarter. That is a major plus... individuals can advance themselves.

Now, what exactly do you feel you want cured? Cancer, AIDS, Heart-Disease, COPD?

reply to Zhen-Xjell
There are too many horrible diseases today that a cure should be discovered for to narrow it down to just one.

Snapcase
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reply to Zhen-Xjell
Cystic Fibrosis.

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reply to Zhen-Xjell
Obviously, AIDS/HIV comes to mind first, but I'm with dbmaven, cure 'em all, it doesn't matter in what order.

reply to Zhen-Xjell
I would use my 1 wish to cure Alzheimer's.
I never took this disease seriously until I witnessed it ravage my great-uncle. All my life growing up he was a wonderful, vibrant man. Held proud his world series ring that he got playing seniors softball. He went to, and won that world series ring late in his 70's.
Alz's is wicked, and relentless. There is nothing I would like to see more than it wiped off the face of existence.

reply to Zhen-Xjell
Many members of my family have suffered from or have passed away from the effects of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. So naturally all of these are on my list. One disease that is not so obvious and is often overlooked or misunderstood is mental illness. The brain is a complex organism. People suffering from certain forms of mental illness, such as depression for example, are often overlooked because they often appear to have and lead normal lives. Their torment however tells a very different story. On this note, mental illness has my vote.
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reply to Zhen-Xjell
You know; I was tring to avoid a selfish answer. Most people will pick an illness that they have familiarity with. Sick friend or loved one.
My Dad died of a heart attack 5 years ago; so I guess I have to say heart diease.

But on second thought maybe bacterial infections like staff infections. If we had a way to prevent hospital generated infections ( does that count as a diease?)

Bugguts very tru.
My grandfather had that. I was going to suggest it but my spelling wouldn't permit me to.:D
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reply to BugGuts$
My first cure would be for cancer.
As for AIDS, I thought there was a "cure" isn't safe-sex a pretty safe way to not get AIDS?
I don't think any other in-curable disease has such a simple way to not get it.
Please don't flame me. It's just that I know people who died from cancer and it hurts me that so little money gets funded for cancer research. I truly believe the bulk of our medical research should go to cancer.
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reply to Zhen-Xjell
I'd really like to see a cure for Crons Disease. It's a colon disease, somewhat like a permanent ulser that affects digestion... which I've been suffering from for about 4 years. It's not contagious and is easily handled with proper nutrition. Also A.I.D.S. and Cancer should be atop any list for a cure... these of which I do not suffer from... Thank GOD.
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reply to BugGuts$
aging..I believe aging is the number one killer of mankind......

reply to Zhen-Xjell
I would like to see Alzheimers, diabetes, and many different cancers.
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