#disease

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#benefit #care #disease #early #emphasis

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. ↗

— Lois Capps

#awareness #become #becomes #celebrated #chance

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#becomes #contagious #disease

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#around #aspect #basic #basic human rights #believe

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#cure #disease #everybody #i #i think

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#aids #cancer #cured #disease #dreaded

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#also #background #bit #cancer #die

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#alzheimer #dad #disease #family #had

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#ago #discovered #disease #europe #european