There is more to treatment than just medication. At a certain point in the disease, medicine doesn't seem to work, depending on how bad the thickening of the skin is. There are certain things she can do that can prevent it (scleroderma) from getting worse.
-Rheumatologist Clemente Amante,
Asian Hospital and Medical Center
Learning to live with scleroderma isn't an easy road to travel, but I'm making it and I've got the scars to prove it.
-Peachy Pagsuguiron
There is a difference between being a victim suffering from a disease and being a person living with a condition.
-Rheumatologist and author Maureen D. Mayes, The Scleroderma Book: A Guide
for Patients and Families
All over the world, women are increasingly bearing the brunt of the epidemic. If these rates of infection continue, women will soon become the majority of the global total of people infected. Society pays, many times over, the deadly price of the impact on women of HIV/AIDS.
-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
at a UN session to mark
International Women's Day, March 8,
quoted by
Agence France-Presse
Certain things transcend friendship and camaraderie. And neither can make me blind to what I believe is the immense disservice [some] people have committed to the Filipino people by choosing to inflict Fernando Poe Jr. on us as a presidential candidate, particularly at this point in our history when we are fighting a desperate battle for political maturity and international respect.
-Ophthalmologist Ma. Dominga Padilla,
in an open letter, February 14
Some people might not agree, but I'm telling you, we did a lot.
-Health secretary Manuel Dayrit,
speaking about the accomplishments of the Department of Health,
at the University of the Philippines-Manila, February 27
As a community-based health programs practitioner I am well aware that the people's health is far from improving.
-Dr. Eleanor Jara, executive director,
Council of Health and Development,
at a forum on the Philippine presidency,
February 27
Allergy and behavioral problems are independent of each other; they are not necessarily related.
-Dr. Alejandro Ortigas, head, immunology center,
St. Luke's Medical Center
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