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Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

— Arlen Specter

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✓Similar Perspectives

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

— Jamie Oliver

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

— Leeza Gibbons

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

— Vinnie Jones

The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.

— Richard Lamm

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

— Sam Kean

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

— Tom Rath

Death is the cure for all diseases.

— Thomas Browne

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

— Elizabeth Pisani

We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

— Aaron Ciechanover

✗Opposing Perspectives

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

— Dean Ornish