The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases. — Caskie Stinnett Copy Share Image
We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've… — Norman Swan Copy Share Image
We've been scared from using antibiotics and antivirals out of some kind of weird sense of communal responsibility to keep bugs naive… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms? — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy. — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you get sick and you go to the doctor, it can feel like you didn't get your money's worth if… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body,… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
I went in for a minor arthroscopic surgery to remove a couple loose bone fragments from my elbow and the surgery turned… — Shane Mosley Copy Share Image
Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
“Food animals also get antibiotics for “growth promotion,” a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
When we prescribe antibiotics for a strep throat, it's not even for the strep throat. It's for the complications of the strep… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics. — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
“About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
“Preliminary studies carried out at Harvard and in New York have shown that the two antibiotics metronidazole and gentamicin cause particularly hefty… — Giulia Enders Copy Share Image
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria,… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it,… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
Why do physicians prescribe powerful antibiotics? Generally not because our patients ask for them. Most people who come in with a sore… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If your child has a strep throat, and you're on vacation, it doesn't necessarily mean that they need antibiotics. In fact, by… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
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