A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.
It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
