1.   Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.

2.   Arthritis is a crippling disease which affects people all over the world.

3.   Not only do these youngsters have to find the strength to battle against crippling disease, they have to find the motivation and the will to win.

4.   Experts say that difficulties in recruiting participants in clinical trials are seriously impeding progress in efforts to conquer many major killing and crippling diseases.

5.   HEALTHWATCH-AGING -- New medicines and therapies for arthritis are improving management of this crippling disease.

6.   Irvin Rosenfeld, the Boca Raton stockbroker permitted to smoke pot to fight a crippling disease, sued Delta Airlines Wednesday for barring him from a plane in March.

7.   It clearly is a crippling disease, but Waldo never has let it hinder her.

8.   Landre, from Howell, N.J., said her daughter suffers spinal muscular atrophy, a crippling disease of the spinal cord.

9.   National deficits and debts are the twin crippling diseases that afflict all too many developed countries, including most of Europe and the U.S.

10.   More women are getting implants even as Dow Corning Corp. is in bankruptcy proceedings triggered by lawsuits alleging that silicone-gel implants led to crippling diseases.