Doctors will try to replicate the success of her case and see if aggressive treatment right after birth can "cure, " or if this is an anomaly.

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But this is not enough for Julie Bailey, the woman who set up Cure the NHS after losing her mother at Stafford Hospital.

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After all, 50 years after the first clinical trial to cure tuberculosis, the disease still kills almost 3m people a year.

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However, like researchers still seeking an undiscovered cure for cancer, after having spent billions, any information that might lead to a solution deserves to be heard.

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The men volunteered to be "guinea pigs" at the government research base Porton Down after being told scientists wanted to find a cure for the common cold.

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Dan Chapple founded campaign group Cure the NHS Basildon in March after the death from a brain haemorrhage of his mother, whom he says was not diagnosed in time.

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After all, African traditional healing, often ridiculed in the West, have continued to offer some cure to the indigenous patients in the absence of scientific explanations or other modern, medical formulas or documented methods.

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Repeat after me, say the educators: There is little wrong with education that more money won't cure.

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