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There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

Prevention is better than cure.

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.

We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can.

Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

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.

It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.