While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
… much like the cure-all theory of patent medicine.
Many women’s rights enthusiasts were at first skeptical of an Equal Rights Amendment. See Thomas J. Walsh {40823}.
People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my dad; it's what God had instructed my dad to do.
I have found myself able to cure people with my hands.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.
We have discovered the secret of life.
The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
I want to live until they find a cure for dying.
I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.
I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.
There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.
I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
My eyes were bad. I stuttered. I had hepatitis, double pneumonia, even anemia. When I was 7, my family took me on a trip to Cuba, and all my ailments disappeared. Cuba gave me health, so I've been deeply attached to Cubans ever since.