“You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.” PeopleWantLongIdeasEnoughBodyDiesBitsDiseaseCancerHarmChecksCuresCellsGet AwayMisbehaving Author:Paul Davies
“The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensDoneWholeImpossibleDiseaseKillingPopulationHarmParasitesMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.” MenSufferingJourneyDiseaseMedicinePainfulHarmGravesConquerDisease And Death Author:Petr Skrabanek
“According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.” CausesSourceDiseaseYogaTraditionHarmDecay Author:Rod Stryker
“I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.” MayDoeTwoWindDiseaseMy FriendsUniversalWineMedicineGlassesHarmFrankLiquidChampagneDrinking Champagne Author:Fernand Point