Awareness of Medical Conditions
Green ribbons are used to create awareness for many medical conditions, including:
- Bipolar Disorder
- Celiac Disease
- Scoliosis
- Cerebral Palsy
- Depression (specifically childhood depression)
- Gastroparesis
- Hemochromatosis
- Kidney Cancer
- Lyme Disease
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (Lime Green)
- Mitochondrial Diseases
- Organ donation and Organ transplant
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Tourette Syndrome
- Tracheal Williamsburg Disease
- Stuttering (sea green)
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Famous quotes containing the words awareness of, awareness, medical and/or conditions:
“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)
“It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)