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…
Having Purpose Adds Years to Your Life
Rush University studied 950 people with a mean age of 80…
Making Cigarette Smoking Uncool
Pause to consider the logic here. We decide it is not a…