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"You need to look at taking care of a vulnerable joint the way you take care of your teeth. When my patients say, 'I can't do that,'  I say, 'Well, you brush your teeth every day.'"

Joseph Buckwalter, professor and chair of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the Carver College of Medicine, on exercising to maintain muscle strength, range of motion, and flexibility, all of which protect the joints (Time, March 6).

"We can't just do this willy-nilly. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient. We have to be responsible with our resources."

Sara Copeland, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Carver College of Medicine, on screening infants for Hunter syndrome, an inherited disease in which the body doesn't produce enzymes needed to break down certain waste products in cells (Willkes-Barre Times Leader, March 4).

“What it gives you operationally is something that is valued by the operators and by the agencies that have to keep the roads clear. There's persistence on the road. There's reduction of corrosion. These are real benefits. And because of that, I expect we're going to see more and more usage of it."

Wilfrid Nixon, professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, on the practice of using sugar beet juice for melting snow and ice (NPR, Feb. 26).

"I didn't have a single student who ever said, 'Oh my god, what am I doing in this business?' In fact, it was the opposite. It emboldened them."

Mark Blumberg, professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, on the 2004 Seashore Hall break-in by animal-rights extremists (Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 27).

"If you look at the incidence of these diseases, a lot of them began to emerge and become much more common after parasitic worm diseases were eliminated from our environment.”

Robert Summers, professor of internal medicine in the Carver College of Medicine, on the increased incidence of allergies and immune-system diseases (Washington Post, March 4).