#diseases

In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? ↗

— Paracelsus

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Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #culture #diseases #disgusting #had

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#diseases #having #health #neighbors #same

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#diseases #doubt #environmentally #future #no doubt