“The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.” CausesCompanyDiseaseClaimsCancerCampaignsBreastsThreateningBreast Cancer Author:Ravida Din
“Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.” KnowsHandsFeltDiseaseThreatening Author:Sheryl Crow
“Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.” PeopleIfsHappensWould BeAmericaLeftStreetsDangerDiseasePrivilegeRageExposedFascinatedThreateningLeft AloneNorth AmericaSmall Parts Author:William Gibson
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.” WritingPowerfulDiseasePicksThreatPatientThreateningImpatientIrresistibleVirusesGreat Writers Book:In Defence of T. S. Eliot Source: In Defence of T. S. Eliot
“There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg” HumansKindTwoHuman BeingsRight NowDiseaseCuresAwfulEggsThreateningDnaTherapeuticDonorsCloning Author:Mary Tyler Moore
“New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.” Has BeensFightingAnimalPromiseDrugOffersDiseaseResearchFundamentalsMedicineCancerAidsTechniqueHostThreateningAdvancementAlzheimerAlzheimer'sTuberculosisAnimal Research Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka