No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on his deathbed.
Researcher Katja Schmidt criticised another site for suggesting some herbal medicines could cure cancer.
Even when it was known that penicillin could cure the disease, the men in the study didn't get it.
He says much more attention needs to be focused on devising better surgical methods that could cure more people.
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Her claim that the mixture could cure colds may have been an overstatement.
In 2007, Mr Jammeh announced that he could cure HIV-Aids in just three days with a special potion of secret herbs.
But if the days of HRT as a catch-all wonder-drug that could cure all problems are over, that may have its own benefits.
There was a time not long ago when patients suffering from rare diseases had little hope of finding a medicine that could cure their ills.
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"Suppose the best medicine available in the U.S. could cure a man in three days, while some other mainland-produced medicine would take four days, " he says.
One would hope the zoom-zoom company could cure that.
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We're not going to fail to make investments in basic science and research that could cure diseases that harm people, or create the new technology that ends up creating entire jobs and industries that we haven't seen before.
Correcting malfunctioning genes could perhaps cure diseases linked to a single gene, such as sickle-cell anemia.
The ultimate goal of the research is to learn whether insights from space bacteria could help cure diseases in humans.
Surely, I thought, in a future where you can be healed without being touched and teleported, you could also cure baldness.
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And every one of these patients had some disease that theoretically might be cured or they could help cure it with these stem cell lines.
He added that until different sub-groups had been explored properly, a cure could not be found.
Now new drugs that could be approved within a year could increase the cure rate to 70% for newly diagnosed patients.
Some studies of the new drug therapies being developed appear to show cure rates above 90% following treatments as short as 12 weeks in patients with certain types of hepatitis C, although further studies involving larger numbers of patients could find lower cure rates.
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But the ultimate goal is a two- to three-pill cocktail that could replace interferon and cure the vast majority with few side effects.
Mr Obama repeated the claims of some scientists that embryonic stem cell research could lead to a cure for a whole host of diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes and that it could even help someone who is paralysed to walk again.
Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.
As the International Aids Society's president-elect, Prof Barre-Sinoussi is leading efforts for a research strategy which could come up with a cure for HIV, or at least a mechanism which drives the virus into remission.
With no cure in sight, could cultured pearls become as rare as their natural counterparts?
Finding the cause of these could help in learning how to cure or contain them.
Dr Robertson said more treatment would cure more people, who could go on to develop liver damage, and may slow the rate of the epidemic.
Tendons, ligaments and bones could be engineered for accident victims or to cure diseases such as leukemia.
But Friends of the Earth argues this is just the first of a huge number of new schemes which could create as many environmental problems as they cure.
Based on these rates of growth, Norton argued that giving the same total dose of chemotherapy over a shorter period of time would boost the cure rate by limiting the time tumors could regrow between treatments.
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