Despite the fact that HIV/AIDS is preventable and treatable, 430,000 children each year -- more than 1,000 a day -- are born with the disease. About 90 percent of these babies are born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Today's record breaking number of uninsured reminds us why health reform has been a top national priority. We cannot turn our backs on the millions of Americans who are falling through the cracks of a broken health system.
The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that manufacturers have the option of using "corn sugar" as an alternate name for high fructose corn syrup.
This week, Sen. Mike Johanns is due to offer an amendment to the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act that could effectively kill the Prevention and Public Health Fund. This would be a grave mistake.
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...
Savings through prevention have the consistent advantage of forcing us to focus on building a country that works better for its citizens.
In rejecting the ban on juvenile life without parole sentences the California State Assembly missed an opportunity to bring our state into line with the rest of the Western world.
The Senate can ease complicated rules for business without compromising the core principle that we should -- and absolutely can -- prevent the very diseases that ultimately cost us the most to treat.
Given the statistics, no matter where you live, no matter your age or race, fat or thin, you may get diabetes. It's the fifth leading cause of death the U.S. and its complications affect every bodily system.
Although it's encouraging to see so much media coverage of diabetes, little attention has been paid to the primary tool in the fight against it: prevention.
A recent editorial proposes that fast food restaurants consider giving out a cholesterol-lowering statin drug with each meal, just as they give away little packets of ketchup. Surely, this must be a joke, right?
We are, truly, at a turning point. It will take the collective power of governments, foundations, NGOs and the private sector to sustain the global effort to combat the AIDS epidemic.
This week, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $1.27 billion for prevention and public health. This investment could shift our current health care system from one that is reactive to one that is proactive.
We should be clear that, as a nation, we have done too little to prevent disease, whether from smoking or unhealthy eating or lack of physical activity.
As the years go rushing by, I find myself becoming more aware of, and concerned with, the ability of the foods I consume to provide more than just basic nutrition and oral gratification.
We should be promoting health and disease-prevention. Rather than making "fat pills" we should be helping people to maintain a healthy weight, and not become overweight and obese int he first place.
It's been a time of growing black wealth and influence; an era that saw an African-American man elected president of the world's most powerful nation. With so much progress, why are so many black children still in foster care?
Schools cannot rely on reactionary approaches to dating abuse, they need to take proactive measures before a tragedy occurs.
Even without being a trained health care professional, the layperson can literally take charge of a situation, initiate a simple movement, called Hands-Only CPR, that can literally save a life.
The health plans are beginning to figure out how they will survive and thrive under the new rules, and the way forward is, according to one managed care exec, to change how providers are paid.
While the nation still struggles to understand the impact and implementation of health reform, the Prevention and Public Health Fund—a barely n...
Taking action before an incident occurs has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars related to tobacco use, lead poisoning, and car crashes. And like smoking or highway deaths, the oil spill was both predictable and preventable.
The important take-away from this epic campaign to pass health care reform that will improve women's lives was the role played by women inside and outside the beltway.
In Sudan, the debate continues. What should be done about the genocide? How can justice and peace simultaneously be pursued?
It's time to begin seeing our health not as an overwhelming hurdle, but as a series of daily achievable steps. It's time to put resources behind practical approaches and tools that people will actually use.
