Around 80 percent of people in Gaza relied on humanitarian aid prior to the invasion, putting them in an already vulnerable position - Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea
We cannot protect our guns before we protect our children - Florence Yared, Parkland school shooting survivor
The American way of life and the future of our natural environment and resource base depends on restoring the proper balance between our needs and the unlimited demands of millions on the move - FAIR
Access to safe and legal abortion is a matter of human rights, and its availability is the best way to protect autonomy and reduce maternal mortality and morbidity - Human Rights Watch
It’s one of the world’s most serious current crises – and yet, this conflict is being deemed forgotten - Jorgelina Manna-Rea
Children of today shouldn’t be in school learning how to survive a mass shooting. They should not be the ones navigating and leading their parents through one. It is sick and perverse. America no longer feels safe for anyone - James Woods
The version of the Covid-19 virus behind the latest spike in infections shares many of the same symptoms as earlier variants of Sars-CoV-2 : a sore throat, fatigue, headache and a cough. Differences in the symptoms often depend on a person's underlying health and their immune system - David Cox
Counterfeit pills are a big part of the story. High-quality pill presses can make the substance look like a legitimate medication. They look for all the world like the real thing - Daniel Ciccarone
The moral and political imperatives are clear. Political violence must be universally condemned - David French
America’s public-health establishment has become a threat to individual liberty - Carl J. Schramm
The abortion pill is safe and easy—and it could give American women unprecedented reproductive autonomy. Its political opponents have spent over a decade ensuring this doesn't happen - Gabby Bess
Limited information, restrictive laws and policies, stigma, high cost, and other barriers put infertility care, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), out of reach for many, especially people from marginalized communities - Center for Reproductive Rights
Health care was once moderately immune to the anti-diversity, anti-equity, and anti-inclusion craze. Not anymore - David Velasquez
In a sense, climate change is an opportunity for us to step up—to grow up—as a species.- Emma Marris
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity - Madeleine M. Kunin
I know exactly what amino acids I have to change because in 2012, against my recommendation, the scientists that did these experiments actually published them. So, the recipe for how to make bird flu highly infection for humans is already out there - Robert Redfield MD
What these drugs can’t fix is what underlies the “obesity epidemic” — a culture that continues to hate fat people, a health-care system that incentivizes our weight loss over our actual well-being, and a food system that denies us access to whole, healthy foods - Samhita Mukhopadhyay
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Remember: No place outside is safe during a thunderstorm, so when thunder roars – go indoors. When you see the clouds building up, hear thunder or see a flash of lightning, it’s time to dash inside to a lightning-safe place - Chris Vagasky Meteorologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Before you crack open the anti-insect sprays, first think about all the non-toxic things you can do to keep them away - David Suzuki Foundation
If you’re relying on that bottle of sunscreen to protect you from all the risks of sun exposure, you’re not seeing the big picture - Kris Carr
Be your own best advocate and refuse to have your own instincts and sanity belittled. You have the power. Use it - Shilo Zylbergold
Prebiotic sodas aren’t likely to harm your health... but it’s also not likely that they’ll be beneficial - Marion Nestle
Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price - Gabriel J.X. Dance
It’s too available out there for all these kids in these schools. It’s just ridiculous - Jessica Harris
There are certainly ‘optimal’ ways to train, but you can see increased mobility, better sleep, better strength and increased bone density with shorter, simpler workouts - Barb Puzanovova
Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere - Alexandra Paul
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Venting is not an effective strategy for anyone trying to cope with daily stress, whether they have perfectionistic tendencies or not. Research clearly shows that venting increases rather than decreases stress - Brad J. Bushman
School meals have the potential to serve as a safety net for us all - Megan A. Carney
As tears fall from her face she begins to sway. Love shouldn't hurt this way - Diana Rasmussen, Snow White Darkness
Envisioning a future where birth control pills are available over the counter in the United States, fully covered by insurance, priced affordably, and accessible to people of all ages, identities, and backgrounds - Free The Pill
If you have heard of titanium dioxide at all, you probably know it as an ingredient in sunscreen. But it is also used in lots of foods - Andrea Petersen
The pendulum had swung very far away from the use of hormone therapy for any purpose, but the absolute risk in younger women in early menopause appears to be very small - JoAnn Manson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader - John Quincy Adams
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night - Marilyn Monroe
Congratulations if you aren’t burned out. Perhaps you learned to play the guitar, wrote a screenplay, or took up French during the pandemic. But if you’re like me and most of my patients, you’re running on fumes - Lucy McBride
First of all the doctor should look at the patient’s face. If he looks his usual self this is a good sign - Hippocrates 430BC
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled - Elizabeth Blackwell
When I come on to my shift, I don’t have any clue what I’m going to see - Kathleen Clem MD
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination - Al Gore
Some patients may, indeed, have “classic” presentations of these disease processes. On the other hand, other patients may have more subtle signs and symptoms - Sarah Brubaker MD and Brit Long MD
Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual - Elizabeth Holmes
Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us - David Gelernter
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge - Stephen Hawking
When it comes to health, I hope we can help the next generations understand that there isn’t always an app for that - Doris Iarovici MD
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body - Cicero
O Sleep, O Gentle Sleep, Natures Soft Nurse, How Have I Frightend Thee, That Thou No More Wilt Weigh my Eye-Lids Down And Steep My Senses In Forgetfulness? - William Shakespeare
There’s a fitness revolution at work here, A lot of people are reconsidering what works for them, and also becoming more flexible and more open to different types of fitness - Shanel Anderson
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live - Socrates
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not - Mark Twain
Is it worth $199 to reveal your genetic code to a private company with big links to Big Data for the mere benefit of perhaps connecting with fifth-degree cousins - Elaina Baker
If you had asked me about the idea of it 20 years ago I would've been skeptical and said you've been watching too much Star Trek. But today, we're as close as we've ever been to having Dr. Bones McCoy's tricorder, the seemingly magical device that could scan a patient quickly and report critical health data - Inmar Intelligence
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always I am healthily in body and mind - Swami Sivananda
As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring - Heidi Murkoff
Should I take drugs? Of course, you already do. Caffeine is a drug. Alcohol is a drug. Ibuprofen is a drug. Acetaminophen is a drug. Anesthetics are drugs. You, my friend, are a drug user - Greggory Moore
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism - Carl Jung
There’s a fitness revolution at work here, A lot of people are reconsidering what works for them, and also becoming more flexible and more open to different types of fitness - Shanel Anderson
Contrary to popular belief, heat illnesses do not exist on a continuum. You do not need to have heat cramps or syncope before you have heat exhaustion - Korey Stringer Institute
There continues to be a great deal of controversy surrounding sickle cell trait and its association with exercise-related morbidity and sudden death - Bruce L. Mitchell
I am frustrated -- and I have to be honest, angered -- by the fact that as a society we are being abused. I think we are a very generous society - Saul Pytka MD
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey – Pat Conroy
It's a complicated time with so much information and along with it, disinformation, and we just want to just cut through the noise - Shepherd Smith
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