1.   And so appealing to disease sufferers and their families.

2.   Bush had not planned to ask the pope about the emotional stem-cell question that divides disease sufferers, scientists, ethicists and anti-abortion activists back home.

3.   Drugs are sold after they prove an effect on the average disease sufferer, not every individual.

4.   If he blocks or restricts funding, Bush risks estranging political moderates and millions of disease sufferers who are forcefully mobilizing behind the research.

5.   Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are testing a new hemophilia therapy that could stop disease sufferers from bleeding.

6.   The government apologized that year for its belated action to bring disease sufferers back into society.