I am alive today because I had advance warning about kidney disease. When I was eleven years old, I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes.

One in eight people you know in Virginia have signs of kidney disease ranging from the earliest stages to the very advanced. Unfortunately, many didn't know they had a problem until it had advanced too for.

Today the market caught the double-dip disease. Recent economic data, like yesterday's [Tuesday's] consumer confidence number, seems to corroborate opinion about deceleration in growth.

Today, they spend far more money plastering convenience stores with their imagery, paying convenience store owners to put cigarettes near where kids will see them.

What if we're seeing the stirrings of 'Dutch disease', whereby windfall gains from commodity industries push up the currency so as to squeeze activity in more productive sectors like manufacturing?

Hepatitis A, among the various hepatitis diseases that we have, is a very mild disease, generally causing fever, malaise, nausea and jaundice. But in general, it is a very mild disease.