How our nation treats its children reflects our societal values. Children can't vote. They depend on us -- parents, grandparents, pediatricians, teachers, and other child health advocates and professionals, to do right by them.
All Americans should have the opportunity to lead long, healthy and productive lives. Yet one in two African-American and Hispanic-Latino children born this generation will develop type 2 diabetes as adults. This statistic is unacceptable because it is preventable.
Alongside education and job growth, making disease prevention a priority in our health care system may be one of the most important investments we ca...
I write to strongly urge you to stand firm in the face of attempts to eliminate or reduce the Prevention and Public Health Fund created by the Affordable Care Act.
It is time to look seriously at what health reform really means: putting into place inexpensive and effective interventions that have a positive impact on the health of all of our citizens.
Community prevention is the essence of local control. It's about helping neighborhoods to work together with local businesses, community groups and ...
The House is now in Republican hands. If our newly elected officials earnestly believe that, "The people's priorities will be our priorities. The peop...
Sometimes people's choices show you a lot more about what they don't know than they know. That is certainly the case with the Johanns amendment, up fo...