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Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to and even little things might make a big difference, so I wear eyeglasses because my eyes aren't particularly strong, before there were eyeglasses someone at my age would probably not be good for much.

Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. ... At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" ... Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

We needed a game like this in the worst way. It was good because it gave our starters a chance to play and not have to scratch to be in the game. It was good medicine for us.

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine-not diet, not smoking, not exercise-that has a greater impact.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.

Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.

At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

We need to make sure doctors can afford to practice medicine here and of course recruitment activities (need to be in place) so health care is more available to people.

Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

She was a very devoted pediatrician who spent her life studying medicine and helping others. She gave free medications to her patients and went the extra mile to help those in need. She's my role model.

She was disappointed, because she thought we'd brought food. That comment hit hard. It's really frustrating because we're trying to do the right thing, but we realize that medicine alone is not the answer. We can give them all the vitamins we want, we can give them all the pills we have, but if they're hungry, malnutrition, that supersedes just about everything.

She's in great hands with Dr. Taft and our sports medicine staff, so I wasn't surprised to hear that everything went well with the surgery this morning. Now she can get on the road to recovery. We look forward to having her back at 100 percent in the fall.

Should we give away refrigerators? Sure. Trips? Yeah. Fur coats? Who cares. But when we turn the quest for medical care into Queen for a Day, we have gone too far -- ethically. A show that gives out good medicine as a prize is immoral.

Signs of slowing growth and wages moving sideways rather than picking up, and of course the currency showing some signs of life, suggest that the Reserve Bank has probably administered enough monetary medicine for the time being.

Since Charles Schwab has taken the helm, the firm has consistently reduced their commission rates and their account fees. They've been taking their medicine in consistent and regular doses.

Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.

Most surgeons will see and do more here in four months than they will in the rest of their career. A lot of advances in medicine can come out of wars.

Most people have experienced back pain at some point in their lives. Sometimes the pain goes away in a few days, but sometimes it lasts for weeks. And unfortunately, the treatments offered by modern Western medicine are only modestly effective.

Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.

Medicine must continually improve, and this depends on partnerships of clinical and basic science work. These summer projects let students see how this kind of work goes on both in the lab and the clinic and gives them a chance to see if this combination is right for them.

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Medicine cure us and give us relief from all type of ailments/diseases provided they are taken on the prescription of an efficient doctor. By taking these medicines one can also escape death which means that they give us a long life.

Medicine and health care are becoming increasingly complex.

no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Of course these days -- with modern medicine -- everything could be revived, and I suppose there is always that chance. But it is looking deader and deader,

My concern is a single concern - can we keep a safety net under patients so they don't end up in a health crisis just because they cannot get medicine or care? I don't think the system is meeting the needs of the uninsured right now. It's overwhelmed.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

Monogram believes that collaborations such as this are vital to developing the kind of advanced diagnostics and novel therapeutics that will make personalized medicine for individual cancer patients a reality.

More than just medicine and food but things to let the children have a chance to play. And through play, hopefully learn some things about health and supporting each other.

My goal is to have Chinese medicine accessible to everyone, not just to Chinese people.

My hats off to our sports medicine staff. They've done a great job of getting them back together and the doctors that we're working with have been great. We held them out an extra week, and that's a good thing, because we need them to be ready.

My family has been in medicine for generations,

People want their health to come from the kitchen cupboard. They don't want it to come from the medicine chest.

Pharmaceutical marketing benefits patients. It also enables doctors to learn about new therapies and diagnostic tools...we believe knowledge is the best medicine of all.

Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.

On the commercial side, clearly all of the three major types of companies -- traditional pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and medical device companies -- view health and medicine as a growing market,

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

I have been privileged to work for such a forward-looking organization that contributes significantly both to the field of medicine and to the Western Pennsylvania community.

I didn't want the baby to be injured if Connor kicked or punched me in the stomach, but I also didn't want to have to tell him off for something that wasn't his fault. It was the effect of the medicine he was taking.

I did not have a cold before or during the French Open. I didn't take any cold medicine at that time.

If it wasn't for St. Vincent's, we couldn't get any medicine at all.

If the government transitions 99 percent of these men and women flawlessly, there will still be 64,000 people without their medicine come January. That cannot be allowed.

If successful, we would combine the resources of two of the leading innovators in cardiovascular medicine and would expand our footprint into cardiac rhythm management. The Guidant acquisition is a natural outgrowth of our strategy to further diversify our business and accelerate growth.

If it's a medicine that makes a difference in whether you're going to get cancer or not, you probably ought to get it out a little quicker.

He was doing dry-land exercises. He was doing the medicine ball hiking and he wrenched his back.

He has significant, massive cerebral bleeding. . . the aim of the operation is to drain it. We have the largest team that Israeli medicine can offer, the most senior people.

He drew me in. David has the ability to understand where the world of science and medicine is going, and he can relate that in lay terms.

There is more to medicine than curing; there is also healing. And this can provide important information to other family members who may wonder if they might have a child with the same condition.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

We've got to let the ribs heal. He's got to feel like he can run and those things. The area that now is rather large causing him discomfort has to shrink, so (doctors) can put the medicine in where they have to put it in. Right now, it's too large. But he's on schedule; he's getting better.

He's a kid that gives us energy. He's so likeable. He's somebody I like to run into every day. He's a bit of medicine for me.

His stepdaughter was his surrogate wife. We believe his wife had some bad health. We believe with his knowledge of medicine that he kept her so doped up that she didn't know what was going on.

He's going to be an off-ice conditioning program for the next 10 days to two weeks and then he will be reevaluated after that. They are going to try and get the right level of medication that he needs. Medicine is not an exact science, so you have to test things and try them. They are in that process now.

Humans seem more interested in discovering life on Mars than we are on this planet. Yet understanding life on this planet is critical. It is said that modern medicine didn't begin until the completion of the Human Genome Project . Likewise, we can say that modern biology won't begin until we understand who we share this planet with.

He was proud to tell you that he practiced medicine for 52 years.

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.

I think it has been good for me to be here, ... I feel good. I haven't seen any bad effects from the medicine, other than I feel a little tired in the mornings. I think that's because I take the medicine at night.

I think the issues will be the creation of a Palestinian state, advocating letting children sue their parents, advocating socialized medicine -- all the positions that the first lady has taken over the years, ... Meet The Press." ()

I think the performance gap between the new-economy and old-economy stocks is like a rubber band; it seems to be snapping the other way. The new economy sounds very exciting, but you're still going to need food, medicine and electricity to survive.

I think this is tough medicine for everybody involved with our company, ... I don't want to make this sound like an easy call for us or for them, but this is our call. We are responsible for running this part of the business.

I think we are doing the prescription medicine equivalent of the Boston Tea Party.

I went through intake and I went through the health department to see what kind of help me and my daughter (can get) and what type of medicine they can get for us.

I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!

I think the work that's going on in this field is very exciting. The only thing I'm saying is you cannot sacrifice a human life, no matter how small, for the benefit of a third party. I think it's elitist medicine and utterly narcissistic. There are so many other adult stem cell alternatives available to find cures for diseases.

I think the week was excellent. The Fed, even though the reaction was delayed, reinvigorated the psychology of the market. It's reinforcing the belief that these interest rate cuts will be the medicine for the economy.

Our hope is that he is doing better than what was reported and that if he needs medicine or urgent medical care that we could look at the options that exist to help him.

Parents must recognize that any medicine is a potential poison when taken in high dose, or by the wrong person.

Our research team has been working on methods and point-of-care devices that could allow saliva to be used as a diagnostic fluid. This could impact the practice of dentistry and medicine in the very near future, as healthcare practitioners use saliva, possibly instead of blood, to diagnose and monitor oral and systemic health.

Our Board and management team are united in the belief that we must take bold action now to lead the emerging era of molecular medicine with leading positions in both genetic and protein analysis.

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT. Instead of requiring clinicians to navigate in and out of applications to find relevant patient data, our combined platform enables clinicians to sign in once, select a patient once and have the patient's aggregated data presented to them automatically.

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT.

Researches reported that they developed a "self-healing" plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

Pill splitting can potentially harm a patient due to the adverse effects an incorrect and inaccurate dosage of a prescribed medicine can have on their health.

Regenerative medicine is pro-life and pro-family. It enhances, it does not diminish human life. ... If encouraged to flourish, it can improve the life of millions of Americans and could lead to new scientific frontiers not now in sight. So I urge my colleagues in the Senate and the American public to support this bill that opposes human cloning but promotes regenerative medicine using nuclear transplantation.

Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I think are overall going to do better regardless of whether that comes from traditional treatments or a combination of western medicine plus other alternative approaches,

People often times have their deliveries stolen. Things like prescription medicine and so forth. We provide a spot for only $2 to have the item delivered securely instead of sitting in someone's mailbox or on the front porch.

Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils.

Nanotechnology's potential is vast and it's real. The opportunity for nanotechnology ranges from improving Olympic sports equipment to discovering better treatments for Alzheimer's disease. But our ability to reap the long-term benefits of nanotechnology -- in areas from energy production to medicine -- will depend on how well industry and government manage the safety and performance of this first generation of products.

My primary goal is to help remove the barriers to the implementation of information technology in the practice of medicine locally.

Marco is a former Rotary president in Guadalajara, and has done wonders in developing preventive medicine programs,

I worked at Bowman Gray School of Medicine before I became a mom. That's been about 15 years (ago). It is very scary. I guess you kind of go back to what you know.

I was very pleased to see Woody. He looked like he was doing pretty good. He didn't look like a guy who was operated on. It shows you what modern medicine can do. They told us when Woody went in, there was a good chance he wouldn't have much swelling because he didn't have much swelling on his shoulder.

I think most sports medicine docs aren't buying into that yet.