Teri Garr Quotes

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.

Once an effective drug is approved to treat a deadly condition, introducing a second drug to treat the same disease can be hard. It's tough to recruit patients with a debilitating disease for a clinical trial when a proven medicine is already available.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

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.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

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

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

If one delays the treatment of a disease, one does not recover quickly.

Today there are no Alzheimer’s survivors. That means that Alzheimer’s patients can’t speak for themselves. Widespread blood tests could create an army of “pre-Alzheimer’s” patients clamoring for breakthroughs in treatment.