Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

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.

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

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

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.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living.

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.