Elizabeth Pisani Quotes

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.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

Health is really important to me and my family. It's something that we value and that I strive for on a daily basis. MedImmune, the makers of Flumist Quadrivalent, knew about that and knew how important health is for me, so it was a no brainer for me to collaborate with them.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

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

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

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

We could conquer cancer if we really wanted to.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

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?