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It’s Official: Teens Prefer Texting to Talking.
A survey in our adolescent clinic (Nov 2010) found 80% of teens…
Jumping into Health Care Social Media
The legendary bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked, “Why do you rob…
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…