-Psalms 8:2

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

-Winston Churchill

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

-Mark Twain

Childhood has no forebodings.

-George Eliot

in Mill on the Floss

Give me half a dozen healthy infants and my own world to bring them up in, and I will guarantee to turn each one of them into any kind of man you please.

-Prof. John B. Watson

Scottish clergyman and author

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

in The Little Prince

It is very important that we have baseline data of all the different [health] problems in the country, so that we will be able to come up with the appropriate intervention.

-Dr. Corazon Barba

director, Food and Nutrition Research Institute

Kung tutuusin, the low-birth-weight babies are the least breastfed. Commonly they are separated from their mothers, isolated [in the NICU], so the mother loses touch with the baby; the bonding process is not established.

-Dr. Socorro de Leon-Mendoza

neonatologist, Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital

For any virus to be declared eradicated, it has to meet certain conditions: its host should be only human, there should not be any chronic carriers of the illness, and there should be available a simple but effective diagnostic kit and an affordable vaccine. What we have achieved so far is only we have interrupted the human-to-human transmission of SARS. We have not wiped out the virus, as it is very likely that animals are harboring it.

-Dr. Shigeru Omi

World Health Organization director for Western Pacific

There is another threat to the region and the world that already has been more destructive than any weapon of mass destruction, more destructive than any army's activities and any conflict, but which is not generally perceived to be a security threat: HIV/AIDS.

-US Secretary of State Colin Powell

in a talk before the Association of Southeast Asian

Nations Regional Forum in June

reported by AFP

We need to standardize training for practitioners. We need science-based, evidence-based traditional medicine.

-Dr. Pyo-Ui Roh

professor of health science, Kyungsan University

South Korea