My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.
Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
11% of Americans believe HTML is a sexually transmitted disease. In reality, HTML is caused by bacteria living in the lower bowel.
I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.
On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
