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.

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

There still are a lot of people who are infected. It's a chronic manageable disease. These are people who are living longer.

It has long been known that people with Alzheimer's disease lose body mass and become cachectic.

The disease is no longer a novelty to people, and sometimes owners take it upon themselves to diagnose their horse with West Nile and put him down before ever confirming it, ... It may be a true decline, but the numbers may not be as true as we are seeing.

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?