--Attributed to Woody Allen (1935- ), American writer and film actor and director

Several labs across the world have consistently shown, by a variety of approaches, that normal successful pregnancies seem to be associated with the Th2-type response.

--Dr. Raj Raghupathy, professor of immunology at the Kuwait University

Faculty of Medicine, in a 2004 symposium

[W]hile there has been some progress, too many countries--particularly the poorest--are falling behind in health.

--Dr. Lee Jong-Wook, World Health Organization director general,

in a progress report

Embedded in the complete definition [of reproductive health] are references to the ability to be pregnant; to deliver safely a healthy offspring; to have a satisfying sex life; and to decide whether to be pregnant or not.

--Dr. Junice Melgar, executive director of Linangan ng Kababaihan,

in her paper "Grounding Reproductive Health Programs on Human

Rights and Human-Centered Development"

If you planted what you ate, the way it was during our forefathers' time, you can get the nutrients you need from food. But with the way our food is delivered now--and I don't see the system improving in the next few years-we would have to resort to more supplementation.

--Dr. Rebecca Singson, consultant, Makati Medical Center

Never fall in love with an industry.

--Philip Yeo, cochair of Singapore's Economic Development Board,

on reducing Singapore's dependence on the electronics industry,

quoted by Agence France-Presse

My use of contraceptive pills made me irritable.

--Attributed to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The DOH experts committee actually already upheld our position by making the recommendation to re-register Postinor. However, the doh secretary had refused to act on [this] since the original applicant for the license had withdrawn their application. He sat on the decision until it was time for him to go.

--Lawyer Carolina Ruiz Austria, program development consultant of the

nongovernment organization WomenLead, on former DOH secretary

Manuel Dayrit's actions regarding levonorgestrel 750 mcg (Postinor)

Usually we make our decisions based on a singular event. Actually we can make decisions based on science. [There are] already good researches out there. We don't need to repeat the researches, we just have to find out whether the research can be applied to us.

--Dr. Mario Festin, deputy director for health operations of the University

of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, on how evidence-based

medicine can be applied in clinical practice

Your misleading promotion of Zyvox, and in particular your unsubstantiated implied claims regarding its superiority to vancomycin, poses serious public-health and safety concerns because of its potential to result in the inappropriate use of Zyvox, which is associated with increased toxicity relative to vancomycin.

--the United States Federal Drug Administration, in a warning

letter to Pfizer on July 27, concerning the advertisement of linezolid (Zyvox)