Explore Quotes on Disease

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.

I remembered reading about a disease called Leishmaniasis, which matched my symptoms. I'd always thought it was an old wives' tale - a sand fly bite that eats your flesh. But when I looked on the internet and saw pictures of people who had it, their lesions looked like mine.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

Not only I am an adoptee, but I also want to prove to everyone that being legally blind with a rare eye disease called Nystagmus that you can do and be anything if you put your mind to it and believe in yourself.

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.

You are not just about death and disease.

If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.