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Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. -- Michael J. Fox
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ -- Thomas A. Edison
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease -- Thomas Alva Edison
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. -- Olympia Snowe
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. -- Leroy Hood
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention. -- David Perlmutter
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases. -- Anthony Fauci
College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students. -- Erik Paulsen
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. -- Lois Capps
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection. -- Michael Specter
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician. -- Henry E. Sigerist
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys -- Albert Sabin
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. -- Alice Dreger

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