21.   It seeks to recover hundreds of billions of federal health care dollars spent to treat illnesses blamed on smoking.

22.   My grandmother, like her mother before her, and countless generations before that, believed in using herbs and other natural remedies to treat common illnesses.

23.   Moreover, some doctors continued to use the drug to treat illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome.

24.   My mother and grandmother treated every illness under the sun with castor oil.

25.   One guest, a Gulf War veteran, described symptoms that sounded strikingly similar to his own and said that Asa had treated his illness.

26.   Part of that path, and one that concerns many experts, is the use of antibiotics and other drugs to treat illnesses.

27.   Prevention is the cheapest and most effective way to treat any illness, but the concept has not gained much currency here.

28.   Since then, tens of thousands of patients have received access to drugs treating such illnesses as heart disease, AIDS and cancer.

29.   Some say local health providers were slow to diagnose and aggressively treat the illness.

30.   Some recent research suggests that doctors may not be treating illnesses of minority members as intensively as they treat the maladies of white patients.