1.   But alcoholism, like drug addiction, is a progressive disease that gets worse without treatment.

2.   HIV is a progressive disease which the immune response ultimately fails to control.

3.   Progressive disease was more common in older recipients and along patients with active inflammation and HBcAg in their native livers.

4.   Progressive disease did not occur in the infected allograft when the corresponding native livers showed quiescent cirrhosis or massive necrosis.

5.   Nine patients in group A and eight patients in group B underwent hepatic transplantation because of progressive disease.

6.   Jennett argues that most patients who now reach hospitals have progressive disease, the ultimate outcome of which cannot be influenced.

7.   ALS is a progressive neuromuscular disease that causes the muscles to waste away, eventually trapping a healthy mind in a useless body.

8.   ALS is a progressive disease that destroys the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscles.

9.   Atlanta Journal- Constitution health writer Amanda Husted has written about their potential promise for people who suffer the progressive disease of the central nervous system.

10.   A spokeswoman for Moore said he died of pneumonia as a complication of supranuclear palsy, a progressive disease that attacks various neurological functions.