It was as if I had a disease that made other people want to hurt me.
"I hated being told I had a disease," wrote a recent commenter on my blog.
A kidney biopsy determined that she had a disease called focal glomerulosclerosis.
And it had a disease without a cure -- a paralysis of power.
"We had a disease, and we got rid of it," Mr. Abdel-Hakam said.
The success proves that gene therapy can work, researchers said, but the patients had a disease that is especially suited for the treatment.
Now I had a disease with a name and I didn't have to feel like I was making it up any more.
It was only after Brendon lost his house, his job, most of his friends, his wife and contact with his kids that he discovered he had a disease.
Emma is similar to Anne Hathaway's character in "Love and Other Drugs," but that young woman had a disease (which wound up killing the movie).
"This man had a disease, and the Romans, who were not known for their compassion, used to laugh at people with physical defects of all kinds," she said.
Edwards then explained that it would be worse if he had a disease that was not named after such a well-respected player.
