Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.
If you're black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of 'conditioning' where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body.
A lot of genetic testing hasn't been integrated into healthcare because it has been expensive. I want to make people realise that they have the ability to be in charge of their own health.
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.