#disease

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#action #against #belong #called #childhood

People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclined to alcoholism. Alcohol will slightly raise the endorphin level of people without the genetic basis for alcoholism; it will dramatically raise the endorphin level of people with that genetic basis. Specialists spend a lot of time formulating exotic hypotheses to account for substance abuse. Most experts point out, strong motivations for avoiding drugs; but there are also strong motivations for taking them. People who claim not to understand why anyone would get addicted to drugs are usually people who haven't tried them or who are genetically fairly invulnerable to them. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#depression #disease #family

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#disease #recovery #family

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon may shorten life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#volcanic-ash-inhalation #life

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#diseases #during #everywhere #extinction #land

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#called #child #crutches #disease #had

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Robert Frost

#alcoholism #disease #egotism #executives #popularly

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

#america #brain #cancer #cell #cell research

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#commended #diseases #efficient #electric #electric light