Tag: public health

Primary Care of HIV Patients Increasing in Importance

Much has been written of late regarding the intial media presentations of…

MichaelDouglas1

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