Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Obesity is a gateway to heart disease, diabetes and a host of other diseases.

It is good and reassuring that the system in Turkey is able to detect cases consistent with the disease, but it is premature to say these are human cases of avian flu.

Love’s a disease. But curable.

What we’ve seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health...

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...