The actions that seemed so plainly toxic to me and my colleagues at the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2001 have become a long-term, manageable chronic illness for most Americans...

Short of finding a cure, that's our goal: to turn ovarian cancer into a manageable illness.

The former editor of The New Republic reflects on the cultural implications of the transformation of AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable illness, and his own struggle with religious faith.

If the study's results are reproduced in human patients, it will go a long way towards turning Alzheimer's into a treatable, manageable illness.

To that end, the administration is overseeing a pilot program with the city's public hospital system in which people with chronic but manageable illnesses enter a "wellness" program for treatment of their illnesses.

However, over the last four decades, new treatments, early intervention techniques and newborn screening programs have helped turn this disease, which was once a death sentence, into a manageable chronic illness.

On 9/11, and on every other day, many more times people die from preventable or manageable illnesses like AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis.

"It's not a manageable illness if you are not housed," said Terri Smith-Caronia, director of New York City policy for Housing Works, an advocacy group that promotes AIDS awareness.

Until combination therapy stands the test of time, AIDS remains only a hope of becoming a chronic manageable illness.

New treatments appear to be turning the disease from a certain death sentence to a chronic manageable illness.