Ben Goldacre Quotes

Once an effective drug is approved to treat a deadly condition, introducing a second drug to treat the same disease can be hard. It's tough to recruit patients with a debilitating disease for a clinical trial when a proven medicine is already available.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

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.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.