Diseases Quotations | Page 2

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

There are infectious diseases that one needs to be aware of in manipulating these various animals. Bird flu is, of course, something we're all concerned about.

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

While India is poised to receive an 11 percent downturn in infectious diseases in 2006, the country would witness a 35 percent growth in diabetic patients and 18 percent growth in cardiovascular patients.

While impoverished nations may need funding to help their police or their bureaucrats - it will do little if we don't also help desperately poor people feed or educate their children or stop them dying from preventable diseases or dirty drinking water.

With the completion of the human genome, and the numerous recent discoveries in molecular and cell biology, exciting new approaches to diagnose and treat diseases are rapidly being investigated.

We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

We know that for chronic diseases such as glaucoma, people don't use their medications as frequently as recommended by their physician. We took this into account in our study, but we suspect that the true costs of medication use could be even greater than we found.

The public health threats are extremely difficult to find. The diseases that can be passed from animals to humans are primarily of concern for people that work directly with livestock.

We have a better understanding of the genetic defects associated with Huntington's disease than we do of other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Establishing this nonhuman primate model for Huntington's disease is critical to providing a foundation for studying the genetic causes of other neurodegenerative diseases.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

We spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related diseases and 300,000 Americans die,

We monitor the situation and we have not discovered any unconventional respiratory diseases in humans suggesting bird flu infection. Monitoring is underway in all districts of southern Russia. Luckily, no confirmed bird flu cases in humans have been reported.

We are very concerned in Hawaii about the fact we are the western doorway to the United States. We see a large number of visitors ... and a good proportion of them are from the Far East where we know a good number of emerging diseases are originating.

We know that half of individual risk of most diseases is due to inherited differences in DNA sequences. Identifying genes that contribute to health is a remarkable opportunity for biomedical research.

This shows us once again that the world is a very small place. We have to remain on guard, even about diseases we usually rarely see anymore in this country.

To support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is to come down on the side of hope for the millions of Americans suffering from diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to cancer to Parkinson's to diabetes,

This new system gives the NHS, for the first time ever, world-leading intelligence on chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

There have been deadly outbreaks of waterborne diseases and in every emergency of this type you're always looking to prevent that second wave of diseases, which adds to the tragedy.

We have every year in the last 20 years seen a new disease identified. There will be new threats of this kind, there will be new diseases coming. Therefore the capacity to identify and react, to respond quickly, is so important.

Even though we couldn't find an association with colorectal cancer, fruits and vegetables definitely protect for other important diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and potentially other cancers. These are some of the best foods we can eat -- there is no doubt about it.

Even if you take every year the problems of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV /AIDS, which are horrible, pandemic influenza has the potential in just one fell swoop to kill so many more people than those diseases kill in decades.

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.

A total of 38 apparently new pathogen species associated with infectious diseases of humans have been reported in the past 25 years.

Diseases are caused by viruses and bacteria. If the body doesn't happen to have those viruses or bacteria, then the risk is less,

Diet and exercise are key factors in preventing chronic diseases and delaying aging.

Controlling infectious diseases abroad is domestic policy as much as foreign, ... Ignoring the problem by hamstringing proven programs is a disservice to U.S. citizens who are impacted by the wave of immigrants from these countries.

And we were swamped--the health issues, the malnutrition, the diseases were remarkable.

Drug companies are interested in diseases that millions of people get, ... That's where the profits are.

Every year up to three million children die from diseases that could be prevented by vaccines that are available now or could be in the near future.

Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease outbreaks was made clear with the Ebola virus.

It would be unusual for measles or rubella or the other childhood-vaccine-preventable diseases to emerge, but many of the people in these shelters are among the people in our country who already experience health disparities, and we're erring on the side of immunizing anyone for whom we have any reason to suspect their vaccination status is not up-to-date.

The second class of people that I examined in those 104 people, were people who still had the diseases of which they said they'd been healed.

poverty, mental health problems and 'lifestyle' diseases have come to pose a far greater threat to affected communities than radiation exposure.

Rather than tell men to have their prostates checked or to guard against heart disease, I urge them to drop the 'bulletproof' attitude, get involved in health screenings and realize that diseases can happen to anybody.

Products of the breeding programs are bound to play increasingly important roles in subsistence agriculture, ... Whether new hybrids eventually replace cultivars that are used by the export trades, however, remains to be seen. In the end analysis, we believe that resistant bananas will be our best defense against diseases in subsistence and export situations alike.

Often, we don't realize we miss infectious diseases until we have invasive species that become pests without their natural enemies. Parasites act like thermostats - when a species becomes abundant it is more susceptible to infectious diseases. The disease acts like a safety valve, keeping populations in check.

Africa has 2.3 workers per 1,000 people. The Americas have 24.8 per 1,000 people. If you are a doctor in Africa, you have 10 fold (more) diseases to deal with compared to your colleagues in other regions.

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: / Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

The mom's nutrition, what she's taking in, can have outcomes affecting the baby's life such as chronic diseases like diabetes.

Deep sea animals show incredible promise as natural sources of bio-medically active compounds. Compounds that are used as anti-biotics and other medicines, ... (Sponges) presumably show good promise to fight diseases such as asthma, tuberculosis, cancer and even AIDS.

Devastating diseases often are treated by drugs that have problems of their own.

Devastating diseases are often treated by drugs that have problems of their own. Own main concern is that people know what they are getting into here.

Dengue is one of these neglected diseases ... it's basically been ignored for many, many years.

Any countries in the regions which have situations in the rural areas similar to what we have here in Turkey could obviously have some diseases in animals and potentially in humans and that requires to strengthen surveillance systems both for humans and animals and to take all the measures necessary to control diseases in animals.

As baby boomers age and our population of retirees continues to grow, there's been a greater demand for health services related to neurological conditions and other diseases associated with aging.

This is one of the most rapidly growing diseases in the world.

This is the biggest scheme of its kind. They say it is aimed at tracking animal disease outbreaks, but I have had conversations with public health officials where they have been looking forward to a time when the spread of human diseases could also be monitored in this way.

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

This approval is another example of the benefits of the Orphan Drug program, which provides incentives for the development of treatments for diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States a year. Until now, Pompe disease has had no approved treatment.

A lot of human diseases are caused by multiple gene mutations that are difficult to identify.

A lot of the fear was fueled by misconceptions, ... Some people thought bodies were going to be burned so diseases could be spread through the air. None of that is going to happen.

they didn't suffer from any diseases or any genetic defects that would account for their stunted growth.

There were 284 deaths from West Nile virus last year, (but) 30,000 deaths from pneumonia and influenza, and those are diseases that we can immunize against, ... So this is still a quite rare condition and not something that people should be overly concerned about.

This is very important and exciting research because it provides compelling physical evidence for the impact of louse-borne diseases on Grand Army troops during Napoleon's invasion of, and retreat from, Russia.

They're real hardy animals when it comes to weather. But they seem to not be real adapted to some of the diseases that have been introduced.

There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared.

About a year ago, we identified both prostate cancer and breast cancer as diseases that showed great improvements in treatment outcomes, so much so that we could significantly alter our underwriting criteria and make life insurance available for people who need it.

A bilingual site is essential to this company. In the end, we want to do anything we can to help serve people of all ethnic backgrounds, so that they may have the same opportunity as the Caucasian community to overcome diseases treatable with stem cell applications.

It's keeping your children healthy. We don't see many of these diseases anymore because vaccines have eradicated them from our lifestyle.

It's not that being underweight causes disease, but that these chronic diseases can cause weight loss, ... It's called reverse causation.

It just doesn't make sense for us to be paying that much money on complications of diseases we can prevent.

It's a potentially politically charged issue because you're talking about vaccinating people against sexually transmitted diseases when they're 12 or 13.

Dogs share physiological characteristics with humans. A lot of diseases that occur in dogs can be directly transferred to humans.

The objective of this study was to determine the relative prevalence of diabetes and related cardiovascular diseases among overweight and inactive adults in a population representative of the nation. What we found was that individuals who are overweight or obese have a higher likelihood of having diabetes and cardiovascular disease even if they are active and appear to be 'fit.' Likewise, individuals who are not physically active have a higher likelihood of having diabetes and cardiovascular disease even if they aren't overweight.

It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny dog.

It lists reportable diseases by state and has pictures of different animal diseases.

It's important to realize that all six cases of 'mad cow disease' identified in North America have involved downed animals. These animals, which are sick, diseased, or injured livestock incapable of supporting their own body weight, are many times more likely to carry diseases like this into our food supply. It's critical that Congress do what it can to prevent this contamination, and that these animals be dealt with humanely. I'm proud to once again join my colleague, Rep. Ackerman, in sponsoring this measure.

The World Health Organization recognizes more than 150 primary immune diseases which affect as many as 50,000 people in the United States.

They'll die because of the lack of food, the lack of sanitation and the lack of water and of the diseases ... as a result of the fighting in the region.

Smoking appears to confer a modest elevation in breast cancer risk, ... Certainly this relationship is not as strong as the relationship between smoking and lung cancer or smoking and heart disease, but breast cancer may be another disease to add to the long list of diseases associated with smoking.

As you're developing, all sorts of things come at you, like diseases and injury. If you're able to develop symmetry despite all of that, then that would indicate to others that you have what it takes to make a go of it in that environment.

Apart from a cure for the diseases that plague us, an end to wars and other lofty ideals, I plan to direct a film I have written, but not act in it.

The lady he was working for didn't know what diseases he might have, so in we go and clean it all up.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

I'm sure that many of the deaths that have occurred (after the hurricane) have resulted from people with chronic diseases either suffering from dehydration or (the) inability to access their medications, ... All of these risks of suffering from chronic diseases and dying from them were greatest for the poor and the other people who could not get out of there.

Infectious diseases are impossible to cover up. You may be able to cover up figures but you cannot cover up the viruses. That's why I don't just look at the figures.

Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.

In an era during which new and re-emerging diseases, such as the H5N1 avian flu virus, are potential public health threats, Americans should not forget to take the proper precautions to protect their health against the diseases that threaten us today.

In the genomics world, we are supporting Craig Venter's original vision of getting an ability to have gene sequencing occur for the masses. While we have a single genome sequenced, the real benefits for humanity come when there are tens of thousands of genomes sequenced and the computing power available today can correlate certain sequences with certain diseases or drug interactions.

In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.

In one month's time we will start to see malnutrition-related diseases and we will start to see people dying, they will say from hunger or starvation but it will be from weakened bodies.

I like to distinguish between 'citizen of the household' chores - like keeping a room free of breeding diseases - from 'work-for-pay' chores. But it's important to teach that you get money by earning it - there's no entitlement program out there simply because you were born.

I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.

IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.

In terms of diseases or any skin conditions there are no risks involved. As long as they have their lashes they can get eye lash extensions.

In my view, Asia is doing quite reasonably well for communicable diseases that now we have reached the point we can afford to discuss suicides and mental health problems in general.

Clearly, there's tremendous untapped potential among the world's scientists to address diseases of the developing world.

Hepatitis A, among the various hepatitis diseases that we have, is a very mild disease, generally causing fever, malaise, nausea and jaundice. But in general, it is a very mild disease.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it.

All governments must be prepared to deal with the infectious diseases because they could be overwhelming this year or next year, but the long-term problem is with the chronic diseases.

All kinds of diseases are waiting to erupt right now.

You can stop the risk of heart attacks, diabetes. All the chronic diseases have a risk and a problem associated with smoking,

An average 90-year-old patient arrives with a half-dozen diseases and a half-dozen medications. Many of those patients end up spending 10 to 15 hours in the emergency room while tests are done and we keep watch on them.

The incidence of infectious diseases last year was higher because the reporting system has been strengthened at medical institutes and fewer cases were missed.

You use a lot less water because you are actually getting water right to the root system. Plants don't absorb water through the leaves. Wet leaves are more vulnerable to bacterial and fungal diseases and insects.