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Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, “Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills.

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets lack [fats and proteins] or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases -- common in develop-ing countries -- cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.

optimism is a disease

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.