“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensFeelingsGirlPresidentWhiteDiseaseAidsSavedHorriblePriestsAffectedTeenageEpidemicsTeenage GirlPta Author:David Levithan
“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.” WritingMy OwnGriefDiseaseMajorsLosingDecidedAffectedRefugeMobility Author:Tara Brach
“If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensMightDiseaseMadAffectedCowsMight Have BeenComprehensiveTrackingMad Cow Disease Author:Charles Schumer
“You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.” KnowsFeelsFirstsCoursesGayDiseaseAidsAshamedAffected Author:Elton John
“When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.” PeopleFirstsWishFailingEffectsDiseaseFaultsObviousHearingVisibleEnlightenedTaoismAffectedLiverKidneysDiseasedEyesight Author:Zicheng Hong
“I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.” IfsLooksHas BeensDiseaseMadMeatAffectedCowsHeartbrokenHazardsOccupational HazardsMad Cow Disease Author:Dominic Monaghan
“Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?” ArtPhilosophyBlackDiseaseDepressionIllnessMental IllnessAffectedTemperament Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books] Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.” TwoEconomyWorstDiseaseThirdsResponsibleIllBurdenSicknessRegionsAffectedFragileEpidemicsCaribbeanIll Health Author:Freundel Stuart