Disease

"If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book... every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed" (Deuteronomy 28:58, 61).

God did not intend for humanity to suffer with diseases and sickness, but allowed it as a result of mankind's choices. Learn more about why disease is here and how it will be stopped, once and for all.

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From GN Radio: The Good News and the Bad News

South African photojournalist Kevin Carter snapped a picture of a small, starving Sudanese girl crawling towards a food shelter. A vulture, poised a few feet away, was awaiting the inevitable. Few who saw the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo weren't haunted by...
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A Deadly Epidemic

Between 300,000 and 600,000 Americans will die this year, not from terrorist acts, but from a chronic disease growing so rapidly that it is now officially called an epidemic. You'll be shocked to find out what and how widespread it...
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Modern Conditions Were Foretold in Scripture Many Centuries Ago

Bible prophecy has foretold a number of circumstances that have been realized or made possible only in modern times.
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In Brief... World News Review: Bioterrorism: Americans Poorly Prepared

The United States has gotten used to an intangible veil of protection.
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AIDS Can Be Stopped Now

Ignorance has accompanied many of humanity's worst diseases. With AIDS, the same tragic story is unfolding once again. But you don't have to be a victim.
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In Brief... A New Rival for HIV

It wasn't spotted until 1989, but hepatitis C is already killing 10,000 people annually, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predicts that by 2010, it will claim more victims than AIDS.
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In Brief... The Apocalyptic Specter of AIDS Marches On

After repeated denials, China has officially admitted a serious problem with AIDS.
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Diseases Take Their Deadly Toll

Up to a third of the world's population is infected by soil-borne diseases caused by worms and parasites, with 300 million experiencing severe adverse effects.
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Coming: An End to Suffering

Why is the world awash in suffering? How did the world come to be in such sad shape? Most important, what will bring the end to human misery?
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World News and Trends: U.S. AIDS infection rates on the rise again?

Twenty years after AIDS was identified as the source of an epidemic that claimed the lives of many homosexual men, a new generation of males is contracting the HIV infection at an alarming rate.
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World News and Trends: Lung cancer top killer of women with cancer

Lung cancer caused by smoking is now the biggest killer of females with cancer, says United States surgeon general David Satcher.
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In Brief... News About Homosexuality and AIDS

On the AIDS front, a terrifying report announced on June 1 shows that 32 percent of young black homosexual men in the United States are infected with the AIDS virus.
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease: A Virus With Global Reach

A Serious problem has spread from Britain to Europe and South America with potential worldwide effects. What lessons can we learn from this costly epidemic?
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In Brief... World News Review: Foot-and-Mouth Seen as Serious Threat to U.S. Agriculture

The United States, which has not had a case of foot-and-mouth disease since 1929, has instituted extensive precautionary measures against infection from overseas, but is preparing as if an outbreak in the United States were a certainty.
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Doctor's Firsthand Account of South African Aids Crisis

"Then it hit me, 'I'm playing God,' " writes a doctor treating AIDS patients in South Africa. Read the doctor's emotional account of the horrors of the unending calamity.
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In Brief...World News Review Keeping Up With Africa: A Continent in Jeopardy

Though there are a few bright spots, the overall African situation still looks decidedly grim.
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In Brief....World News Review AIDS Threat Persists

If you visit Time Magazine's Internet site, scan the main menu on the left side of the screen until you come to "Special Features." Click on "AIDS in Africa." A photo essay will appear, headlined by the starkly sobering graphic...
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Mad Cow Disease: The Fear Alone Is Costly

Concerns over mad cow disease are growing rapidly with the discovery of infected animals in France and Germany. The EU and the U.S. have stepped up control measures, but is it too late to contain the strange and cruel illness...
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World News and Trends: BSE hits Western Europe

A disease that peaked as a minor British epidemic in 1992 and 1993 recently spread to France, then to Germany.
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In Brief... BSE Disease Now in Western Europe

What peaked as a minor British epidemic in 1992 and 1993 has more recently spread first to France, and now to Germany.
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