We have no more to say to each other. We know that each is thinking about her own death, which must come soon. We are completely crushed.

Ebola [196/404]

(William T. Close, 1991, Ivy Books)

The crucial difference, though, is that there are vaccines for biological weapons, while there are no vaccines for explosives.

[...] for every terrorist trying to engineer a biological weapon there are a thousand researchers working on a cure.

 

The ghost map [251/299]

(Steven Johnson, 2006, Penguin Books)

If Snow and Whitehead's Broad Street investigation showed that urban intelligence could come to understand a massive health crisis, Bazalgette's sewers proved that you could actually do something about it.

[...]

The great killer of the nineteenth-century metropolis had been tamed by a combination of science, medicine, and engineering.

The ghost map [207,215/299]

(Steven Johnson, 2006, Penguin Books)

It marks a turning point in the battle between urban man and Vibrio cholerae, because for the first time a public institution had made an informed intervention into a cholera outbreak based on a scientifically sound theory of the disease. The decision to remove the handle was not based on meteorological charts or social prejudice or watered-down medieval humorology; it was based on a methodological survey of the actual social patterns of the epidemic, confirming predictions put forward by an underlying theory of the disease's effect on the human body. It was based on information that the city's own organization had made visible. For the first time, the V. cholerae's growing dominion over the city would be challenged by reason, not superstition.

The ghost map [162-163/299]

(Steven Johnson, 2006, Penguin Books)

Miasma was the intellectual equivalent of a contagious disease; it had spread through the intelligentsia with an alarming infection rate.

The ghost map [144/299]

(Steven Johnson, 2006, Penguin Books)

[...] seeing the patterns more clearly means progress, in the long run at least.

The ghost map [135/299]

(Steven Johnson, 2006, Penguin Books)

No oblidem que només un aspecte que és la Genòmica no fa més que començar, que és per aquí per on anirà la medicina. A l'extrem que podrem fer una enginyeria genètica preventiva a temps que ens pugui arribar a eliminar gran part de les malalties que ara tenim. El paper de l'hospital com un lloc on hi ha molts llits, aquest paper quedarà substituït per un altre on s'investiga per millorar el procediments.

Carles Soler-Durall dixit (L'hospital de la ciutat, Sense ficció)

Si hi ha un ésser humà viu hi haurà un hospital.

Carles Soler-Durall dixit (L'hospital de la ciutat, Sense ficció)

Homeopathy of course, tragically in this case, has no side effects as it has no effects.

Homeopathy fails to treat Bradford campaigner,  The Twenty-First Floor

El objetivo de la investigación de tratamientos para el cáncer es poder unir el fármaco correcto al tumor correcto en el paciente correcto. 

 BBC Salud, Publican la Enciclopedia de Cáncer

En los pacientes en estado vegetativo [...] funcionan los reflejos pero no hay nadie que los represente.

América Valenzuela (Estado de vegetativo y 

mínima consciencia, Ciencia al Cubo, rTVE.es)