Sickness comes with a waning moon; a new moon cures disease.
Old age is a disease that you die from.
Three diseases without shame: love, itch, and thirst.
Victims of the same disease have a lot to talk about.
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Sickness accompanies a waning moon; a new moon cures disease.
Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In fact, only a small percentage of the cells in the human body are human at all. Yet, the common biology and bioc...
The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.
Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
