"crippling diseases" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to diseases that cause severe physical disability or impairment. For example, "Many members of our community are affected by crippling diseases such as muscular dystrophy and Parkinson's disease."
But today vaccination rates top 80percentt, saving three million lives a year and preventing crippling diseases in tens of millions more.
We, the undersigned, believe that if we are to effectively combat the scourge of neurodegenerative and other crippling diseases, we will require the careful and considered use of nonhuman primates.
I've often wondered what we'd have done if the decision had been less stark -- if the doctor had said 50-50, or if the gamble had been on something known, on Down syndrome or one of the severe crippling diseases.
One of the world's oldest and most crippling diseases is a step nearer eradication.
A number of scientific studies have identified people's increasingly sedentary lifestyles as a key reason why people succumb to crippling diseases.
But if those genes are mobile, why have mitochondria retained any genes at all, especially considering that mutations in some of those genes can cause rare but crippling diseases that gradually destroy patients' brains, livers, hearts, and other key organs.
Ridding the world of the crippling disease is a daunting challenge.
Campaigns to eliminate the crippling disease in those countries have suffered serious setbacks over the past year.
Ivory Coast is the eighth previously polio-free country in Africa where the crippling disease has reappeared in recent months.
My mother struggled with a crippling disease, which put an end to all her money-making dreams.
The disability was rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and crippling disease that has plagued millions of people for thousands of years.
