List of incurable diseases
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The following is a list of debilitating diseases for which medical science has no cure as of yet. This list is incomplete.
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndrome (AIDS) see also HIV
- Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Alzheimer disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS,Lou Gehrig's disease)
- Aspartylglucosaminuria
- Asthma
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Avian Influenza
- B-Mannosidosis
- Batten disease (Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis)
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, "Mad Cow" disease)
- Bipolar disorder (Manic-depression)
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) see also Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Kuru
- Common Cold
- chicken pox aka Herpes Zoster aka varicella-zoster aka Shingles
- Currarino Triad
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cystinosis
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Dysmyelogenic leukodystrophy (DMD a.k.a. Alexander disease)
- Ebola
- Emphysema (C.O.P.D.)
- Farber disease
- Fatal Familial Insomnia
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
- Flu
- Fucosidosis
- Galactosialidosis (Goldberg syndrome)
- Gaucher disease
- GM1 Gangliodsidosis
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Herpes Zoster aka varicella-zoster aka chicken pox
- Hopeless Astrocytoma (Brain Cancer)
- Hurler syndrome (includes Hurler-Scheie)
- Hunter syndrome
- Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
- Infertility
- Krabbe disease
- Kuru see Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Lissencephaly
- Lymphocytic Lymphomas
- Maroteaux-Lamy
- Measles
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD)
- Morquio A
- Mucolipidosis II (I-Cell Disease)
- Mucolipidosis IV
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Niemann-Pick disease, Types A and B
- Polio
- Pompe disease
- Prosaposin
- Progeria
- Pseudomyxoma peritonei
- Psoriasis
- Salla disease
- Sandhoff disease
- Sanfilippo A
- Scheie syndrome
- Schindler disease
- Schizophrenia
- Sialidosis (Mucolipidosis I)
- Sly syndrome
- Spreading Adenocarcinoma
- Spreading Melanoma
- Takayasu's arteritis (Pulseless Disease)
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Tinnitus
- Wolan disease
Bone marrow diseases listed above (Leukemia) and others not listed (Myeloma) are curable by Stem Cell or Bone Marrow transplantation [1].
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
