Answer: Bacterial STDs like chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, can be easily treated and cured. Viral STDs like herpes, genital warts, and HIV are incurable, but there are treatments available to lessen the severity of the disease.

STD or Sexually Transmitted Disease is spread from one person to another through either sexual contact or sharing body fluids, like blood. There are two categories of STDs: bacterial and viral. Bacterial and viral STDs vary in the way they are treated. Bacterial STDs, like chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, are often cured with antibiotics. Viral STDs, like hepatitis B, HIV and HPV (genital warts), have no cure but can be treated to reduce the chance of long-term complications.

STDs are very common in the United States. With more than 12 million people in the U.S. infected each year, at least 1 person in 4 will be infected with a STD at some point in his or her life. In the United States, there is approximately 4 million new chlamydia infections a year, over 40 million people have herpes and 30 million have genital warts.

STDs can be transmitted through oral, anal or vaginal sex. They can be transmitted from partner to partner with or without visible signs or symptoms. Many people can pass an STD to a sex partner without knowing it. Some STDs can be passed without having intercourse; they can be passed through skin-to-skin contact in the genital area.

Answer: Currently, there are no home tests for STDs. The only way to know if you have an STD is to see a healthcare provider and get tested.

Answer: If left untreated, STDs can lead to major health problems. HIV can lead to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). Other STDs can cause infertility, tubal pregnancy, reproductive cancers, pelvic inflammatory disease, and serious complications in newborns. Complications from STDs often occur years after infection.

Unfortunately, GERD, in general, cannot be cured at present. In some cases, it may be a temporary condition associated with a specific aggravating factor such as pregnancy. In such cases, GERD will go away on its own when the pregnancy has ended. In most cases GERD is a chronic condition. However, it can be effectively managed with medications and lifestyle modifications in almost everybody. In severe cases, surgery is an option.

Although medical science has made significant strides in recent years in understanding epilepsy, and surgery offers hope for a cure for some patients, for most a cure does not yet exist. However, the disorder can be treated, and people with epilepsy who suffer uncontrolled seizures and/or are dissatisified with their therapy should continue to work with their physician to seek an effective treatment program.

No, since it is not a disease it cannot be cured in the same sense as an infection can be cured. Nor do all of us want to become neurotypical. Many parents of highly-challenged or non-verbal children with Kanner’s type autism believe that their children have a disease that research will eventually find a cure for, or at least a method of prevention. We support scientific research on brain development.

Each dyslexic person's difficulties are different and vary from slight to very severe disruption of the learning process. There is no total cure, but the effects of dyslexia can be alleviated by skilled specialist teaching of phonics, sequencing and techniques to raise the person's self-esteem. The neurological differences also give some dyslexic people visual, spatial, physical co-ordination and lateral thinking abilities that enable them to be successful in a wide range of careers.

No. Glaucoma is incurable, but it is controllable. In most cases it can be successfully controlled with the proper treatment. Glaucoma is a chronic, lifelong condition requiring continual observation and management of the patient to keep elevated intraocular pressure under control and to help prevent loss of vision. The earlier the condition is discovered and treated, the greater the success in preventing vision loss.

Arachnophobia is a fear of spiders. The cause might be different from person to person, so the level of their reaction, the type of reaction and the cure are all different. Because it's such a wide subject, we've collected a series of websites with information, either professional or anecdotal about the fear and it's treatment. We don't take responsibility for any of the information provided on these sites, nor do we guarantee their accuracy. http://www.ufsia.ac.be/Arachnology/Arachnology.