Diseases Quote by Mark Walport

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

— Mort Kondracke

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they…

— Mort Kondracke

Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even…

— David Mixner

The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

— Jenny McCarthy

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed…

— Abram Hoffer

Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost…

— Joseph Stiglitz

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

— Roger Wicker

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth.…

— Marcia Angell

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access…

— Paul Farmer

“There's more money spent on research to cure symptoms than search for causes. Diet, everyday living health issues, corporate dumping of toxins into drinking…

— Christien Gholson

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing…

— Christiaan Barnard

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are…

— Richard J. Roberts