The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.
I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.
A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?
I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.
