Doctor Alexander Tiendrebeogo from the World Health Organization says the disease causes no pain at first.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

The disease causes nerve problems in the hands and feet and muscle weakness.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

The disease causes sleep disorders, mental confusion,personality changes, speech problems,seizures and coma.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The disease causes cartilage- protecting joint surfaces to degrade, allowing painful bone-to-bone contact.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

But a new study shows that India's leading causes of death now also include obesity-related diseases such as heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

The new study confirmed a link, but did not find evidence that the C-reactive protein causes the disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

A separate study found no support for a theory that a biomarker called C-reactive protein causes heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Swaziland is said to have the highest known rate of infection for the virus that causes the disease.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Smoking also causes forty-two percent of cases of chronic respiratory disease, including asthma, bronchitis and emphysema.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Cancer is one of those causes, whether from the disease itself or from its treatment.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

By studying the order of the genes, the researchers found the causes of the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Also,the Aravind Medical Research Foundation investigates the causes and treatment of eye disease.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

And,it causes ten percent of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and stroke.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Causes of stress can be physical, such as injury or disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

He discovered he had the virus that causes the disease AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Scientists are still not sure what causes Alzheimer's disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The World Health Organization says at least five million tobacco users die every year from lung cancer, heart disease and other smoking-related causes.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

These genes are involved in a number of inherited metabolic disorders, including Tay Sachs, a rare,incurable and usually fatal disease that causes the destruction of nerve cells in young children.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11