Tag: public health

Fresh Air Fund Needs Loving Host Families

While this is a little out of our usual realm of publication,…

Anthony Cirillo

Screening and Prevention: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

In the last month, the Obama administration announced programs to reduce racial…

GlennLaffel

It’s Official: Teens Prefer Texting to Talking.

 A survey in our adolescent clinic (Nov 2010) found 80% of teens…

KatherineMalbon

Why I’m Not Having More Children

A man over 40 is almost six times as likely as a…

JohnCGoodman

Preventing Childhood Obesity

The Institute of Medicine last week issued a report, funded by the…

KennethThorpe

Life Expectancy Inequality

This is from a Bloomberg column by Peter Orszag: This is from…

JohnCGoodman

AIDS Stages of Care – Three So Far; Will Number Four Come Soon?

It was just 30 years ago in June 1981 when the first…

StephenSchimpff

1/3 Women Living with Chronic Health Conditions

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than one-third of women report…

Anthony Cirillo

Having Purpose Adds Years to Your Life

  Rush University studied 950 people with a mean age of 80…

Anthony Cirillo

Making Cigarette Smoking Uncool

Pause to consider the logic here. We decide it is not a…

JohnCGoodman