Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
Ronan: The Xandorians and your culture are a disease. Sacrifice Nova Corpsman: You will never rule Xandar. Ronan: No. I will cure it!
Juliet Hulme: All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.
