Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

Our nation’s blood supply is safer than it’s ever been, and it’s getting safer as we speak.

Otis Brawley is one of America’s truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us – physicians, patients, and communities – to recommit ourselves to the pledge to ‘do no harm.’

I’m convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

The current trend in the '90's has not been good, ... We have a lot of work to do.

The girls who are now teenagers, who are now smoking, will be victims of these smoking related diseases in the future,

The underlying premise of Healthy People 2010 is that the health of the individual is inseparable from the health of the larger community,

Hepatitis A, among the various hepatitis diseases that we have, is a very mild disease, generally causing fever, malaise, nausea and jaundice. But in general, it is a very mild disease.

By taking us beyond the issues of race and income, these findings tell us that if we want to help our children avoid dangerous behaviors, we need to find out what's going on in their lives.

I'm sure that many of the deaths that have occurred (after the hurricane) have resulted from people with chronic diseases either suffering from dehydration or (the) inability to access their medications, ... All of these risks of suffering from chronic diseases and dying from them were greatest for the poor and the other people who could not get out of there.