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Quotes About Diseases

We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.
~ Leroy Hood
It is my dream that Chinese medicine will help us conquer life-threatening diseases worldwide and that people across the globe will enjoy its benefits for health promotion.
~ Tu Youyou
New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
~ Margaret Chan
What do we know about the diseases carried by illegal aliens? Not much, thanks to government secrecy, but we know enough to be worried.
~ Tom Tancredo
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
~ Joseph Heller
One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.
~ Richard J. Roberts
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
~ Seth Berkley
Indeed, antibiotic resistance, a fear predicted by Alexander Fleming when accepting his Nobel Prize for penicillin, is a huge concern for many infectious bacterial diseases in the twenty-first century and has been described as a 'ticking time bomb' and the greatest 'global threat' of our time.
~ Mary Dobson
An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can't be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases.
~ Mary Roach
Pharmaceutical companies make money by treating diseases, not by curing them.
~ Mary Roach
Different versions of genes rise and fall in popularity driven often by the rise and fall of diseases. There is a regrettable human tendency to exaggerate stability, to believe in equilibrium.
~ Matt Ridley
genetically different population, so that she can have offspring with varied genes and little risk of inbred diseases. But perhaps she – and T-shirt-sniffing people – are actually doing something that makes sense in terms of the blood-group story. Remember that, when making love in a time of cholera, an AA person is best off looking for a BB mate, so that all their children will be cholera-resistant ABs.
~ Matt Ridley
In my unfortunately infrequent encounters with real passion, I'm rarely as careful as I ought to be. The rationalization goes something like: With all the bullets and mortar rounds I've survived, I must be immune to sexually transmitted diseases. Stupid, I know. More likely, fate will indulge its taste for irony by killing me with AIDS os some other unpleasant alternative.
~ Barry Eisler
ONI technology is also going to save hundreds of millions of lives," I say self-righteously. "By preventing the spread of all sorts of infectious diseases—like the flu pandemic
~ Ernest Cline
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
~ Hippocrates
Reports have indicated that several border agents have contracted diseases through contact with the unaccompanied minors.
~ Phil Gingrey
Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.
~ Said Nursi
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
~ Rosa DeLauro
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
~ Bill Gates
The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
~ Sam Kean
My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others
~ Sir Thomas More