Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize, start to feel that the disease needs to be stopped. Tens...

She wished she had cancer instead. She’d trade Alzheimer’s for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With...

After we controlled for everything we could think of related to longevity – such as health status, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, physical functioning, kidney function, cognitive function, pulmonary function, peripheral vascular disease,...

I always check myself for ticks. As for Lyme disease, a tick has to be on your skin 24 hours before you are at risk, but you’ll never see that in the headlines, … Also...

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?” Fat said. “There are worse diseases than cancer.””Did he show you slides?”We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh...

We need to understand why younger women are more likely to get the disease, why there are molecular differences in lung cancer between men and women, and why there are treatment differences between men and...

There are a few genes that have been implicated in the development of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, but other than APOE, no genes have been found that increase risk for the more common, late-onset form of...

Tests on the bodies are being done to ascertain whether the deaths were caused by the disease.

At the time she died, she had a severe medical disease. She did not know what she was doing.

Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man’s accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For...

What we are seeing is that the surveillance system in Europe is very, very good, since we’re picking up disease in migrating swans. If anything, this should increase people’s confidence in their food. We’re seeing...

I can think of no other disease that would remain so low profile if such a high percentage of the population were struck by it. Mental health has been swept under the carpet for too...

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

All diseases run into one. Old age.

These are real illnesses of a real organ, the brain, just like coronary artery disease is a disease of a real organ, the heart.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

I wasn’t sure of it, but I was almost certain that loneliness was a disease. An infectious, disgusting illness that was slow to creep into your system and overtake you, even though you tried to...

I had the idea of ‘Live From Daryl’s House’ way before I contracted Lyme disease.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

If you walked into your local convenience store and bought a package of cigars, you would notice that it carries a label warning of the potential dangers of cigar smoke. Yet research suggests that cigar...

Nationalism is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want to know why. In a pantheistic world, the explanation was simple-one...

Obesity is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

I don’t like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, ‘I didn’t want to kiss Corey; I didn’t want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.’

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

Poverty doesn’t say so much about God as it says about us.

With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.

They’re like pacemakers. They’re abnormal signals that they’re trying to bring back to normal. Parkinson’s disease leads to an abnormal firing pattern in a specific part of the brain and these brain pacemakers have been...

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So...

Racism is a deadly disease that clings to the soul and rots it until a vile stench that disgusts and irritates the ears of a moral person, is all that is left of a moving...

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

To list all the great discoveries in the field of science and medicine during the past century, such as aspirin, insulin, penicillin, and the streptomycin drugs would require the undivided attention of a medical historian...

We don’t know how the disease got into Nigeria.

There is no disease, no sickness, no problem, and no circumstance that cannot be overcome by the healing power of God’s love. God wants to heal you! He wants you to be made whole. Call...

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.

Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on...

As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific fashion–that is to say, objectively, amorally, intellectually.All those who have written...

From thy entrails, canals, rectum, and abdomen; from thy belly, guts, and navel I do tear out the disease.

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.

For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

The disease is following the best roads.

It’s an important point to make that the disease is difficult to spread.