“Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.” DiseaseMajorsDiabetesComplicationCardiovascularCardiovascular Disease Author:Antonio Gotto
“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
“Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.” WorldWayKindDifferentTodayGivenNationsEnvironmentModernConditionsMankindDrugDiseaseDegreesMajorsConcernConcernedYesterdayOur WorldDifferent KindsOrganismsPlagueOur EnvironmentHazardsScourgeCholeraSanitationSmallpoxInfectious DiseasesLiving Conditions Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.” IfsHumansLongWarGrowthTermSeriousDiseaseMajorsSurvivalIncreaseThreatPopulationDisasterLong TermControlledStarvationPopulation GrowthHuman Population Author:Prince Philip
“Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.” HumansTogetherSufferingOrderCausesPovertyFrontsPlanetsConflictDiseaseMajorsResourcesCompetitionClimateClimate ChangeInjusticeConnectedAidsAddressesWorking TogetherAdequateHuman SufferingMalariaDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:Desmond Tutu
“Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.” WarPovertyProtectDiseaseMajorsDisasterPollutionFamineEpidemics Author:Akong Rinpoche
“If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.” IfsDiseaseMajorsEpidemics Author:Nathan Wolfe
“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” IfsWorldNeedsChildrenDoeUseMightKidsNextStarsGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpImagineDiseaseMajorsOur ChildrenParentingYour ChildrenConquerorNounsMotion PicturesUnqualifiedCollectibles Author:Fran Lebowitz
“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.” KnowsAgeBrainDiseaseMajorsMachinesFunctionFoundationInsightCuresNew AgeSpawnBrain FunctionBrain Science Author:Gerald Edelman
“Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.” FirstsHeartLyingReligionPrinciplesAtheismConditionsEvolutionDiseaseMajorsBirdResearchCancerAidsTinyExperimentsBiologyLinkedBreakthroughFluHeart DiseaseParkinsonParkinson'sBird FluBiomedical Author:Huntington Willard
“My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.” YearsHeartLongPastMotherOrderFourWeekDiseaseMajorsDaughterCandidatesMy DaughterSurgeryLong LifeThirteenReplacementsHeart DiseaseHeart Surgery Author:Nick Cassavetes