Baseball Caps, Flip Flops and Melanoma
This isn’t a personal health and wellness blog, but as a light-skinned,…
Free Clinics Turning Away Patients
Clinics are over whelmed with the number of patients as well as…
Teens Seek Sex Ed Online.
Deb Levine, Chief Executive of ISIS, writes on her blog about the…
In Battle Against HAIs, Innovative Biotechs Play Key Role
HAIs (hospital acquired infections) are the cause of 1.7 million infections and 100,000…
Bladder Cancer Care in America Gets a Failing Grade
Analytical data from Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database was…
States Ranked by Percent Obese Highlights Pervasive Negative Trend
A recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for…
Primary Care of HIV Patients Increasing in Importance
Much has been written of late regarding the intial media presentations of…
Fresh Air Fund Needs Loving Host Families
While this is a little out of our usual realm of publication,…
Physical and Emotional Health of Older Married Couples Tied Cloesly Together
A study of older married couples in the American Psychological Association’s journal…
Screening and Prevention: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
In the last month, the Obama administration announced programs to reduce racial…