States Ranked by Percent Obese Highlights Pervasive Negative Trend
A recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for…
Primary Care of HIV Patients Increasing in Importance
Much has been written of late regarding the intial media presentations of…
Fresh Air Fund Needs Loving Host Families
While this is a little out of our usual realm of publication,…
Screening and Prevention: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
In the last month, the Obama administration announced programs to reduce racial…
It’s Official: Teens Prefer Texting to Talking.
A survey in our adolescent clinic (Nov 2010) found 80% of teens…
Preventing Childhood Obesity
The Institute of Medicine last week issued a report, funded by the…
Life Expectancy Inequality
This is from a Bloomberg column by Peter Orszag: This is from…
AIDS Stages of Care – Three So Far; Will Number Four Come Soon?
It was just 30 years ago in June 1981 when the first…
1/3 Women Living with Chronic Health Conditions
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than one-third of women report…