Surgeon General

Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 05.08.2012

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Sec. Kathleen Sebelius

Over the last three years, we've made significant strides in our fight against tobacco, and our efforts are paying off. But today's report is an important reminder to our nation that we have a lot more work to do to make tobacco death and disease part of our past.

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Aides Urge Longtime Giffords Friend To Run For Senate

AP | By JACQUES BILLEAUD and KEVIN FREKING | Posted 11.23.2011

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By JACQUES BILLEAUD AND KEVIN FREKING, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' aides have urged former Surgeon General Richard Carm...

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It's Official: August Is National Breastfeeding Month

Gina Ciagne, CLC | Posted 10.16.2011

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Gina Ciagne, CLC

Many moms, medical experts, and lactation educators have long celebrated World Breastfeeding Month in August. But the United States Breastfeeding Committee has now proclaimed that August is officially National Breastfeeding Month.

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New Graphic Warnings Labels: A Step In The Right Direction

Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A. | Posted 08.21.2011

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Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A.

Stark images and bold messaging will now graphically illustrate -- on every ad and every pack of cigarettes -- the painful and deadly reality of tobacco use. A diseased lung. A baby surrounded by secondhand smoke. A man who needs an oxygen mask to breathe.

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Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

A group called MarijuanaHarmsFamilies.com is flooding California airwaves with a scary-scary ad against Proposition 19, tthat state's legalize marijua...

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Obesity is Contagious

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Dennis Gottfried

As society initiates its battle to end the obesity epidemic, much can be learned from the similar battle waged against cigarette smoking over the past several decades.

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What's The Big Idea: Aspen Ideas Fest, Day 1

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Abelson

How can Aspen Ideas Fest be harnessed for the common good so that everyone in the country can be exposed to it, not just the few of us privileged to attend such events?

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Not in Sickness; in Health: How Health Reform could Start a Real Revolution

Larry_Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Larry_Cohen

While the nation still struggles to understand the impact and implementation of health reform, the Prevention and Public Health Fund—a barely n...

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A Message To The Surgeon General: Doctors Should Treat Patients, Not Disease

Riva Greenberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Riva Greenberg

If we as a nation are to get our weight and our health back in order, we need our doctors to stop telling us what to do and actually have real conversations with us.

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The Surgeon General Is Confirmed!

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Bergthold

Dr. Regina Benjamin has finally been confirmed for the post of Surgeon General. And the reasons for the delay have been varied, contradictory, and byzantine.

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Paging Dr. Benjamin

Dr. Nancy Snyderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Nancy Snyderman

Well it's about time. Nine months after the inauguration of President Obama, we finally have our Surgeon General. And it couldn't have come soon enough.

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Today In History: Bendict Arnold

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

January 14th is the birthday of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary general and traitor.

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Why Don't We Have a Surgeon General?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Bergthold

There is something terribly wrong when a political minority can hold up a nomination that has the potential to affect a nation's health.

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Ryan Grim

Reid To Push Dem Senators To Fight GOP Obstruction

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Thursday to blast Republicans for blocking President Obama's nominees for key agencies...

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Surgeon General Regina Benjamin: 'I Struggle With My Weight' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's surgeon general spoke frankly with ABC News Monday, saying that she struggles with her own weight. "I'm just like 67 percent of Ame...

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Comical View: Fat Is the New Black!

Erica Watson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Erica Watson

I chose comedy because everyone knows that sassy, fat black women are funny. Being the butt of the joke is what we do best, right?

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New Rule: You Can't Complain About Health Care Reform If You're Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health

Bill Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Teabaggers, Health Care Debate, Burger King, Health, Fast Food, Health Care Reform, Obesity, Health Care, Surgeon General, Comedy News
Bill Maher

Unlike most liberals, I'm glad all those teabaggers marched on Washington last week. Because judging from the photos, it's the first exercise they've gotten in years.

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Mind Your Own Fat

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Over-Eating, Dr. Regina Benjamin, Exercise, Nutrition, Oprah, Fat, Fox News, Genetics, Obama, Medication, Surgeon General, Obesity, Healthy Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Let's talk about fat. Really talk about it. Oprah does. Why not the rest of America?

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Did Jenny Craig Stir the Pot About Dr. Regina Benjamin's Weight?

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sybil Adelman Sage

It's my suspicion that the controversy about President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General may have been instigated by Jenny Craig with the hope of attracting Dr. Benjamin to become a spokesperson.

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Too Fat to Be a Surgeon General?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Bergthold

The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance has taken up the cause of defending Surgeon General Nominee Benjamin. The discrimination against people of "weight" is real, and it is not something to joke about.

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Neil Cavuto: Is Obama's Surgeon General Too Fat For The Position? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** Via TPM comes this surreal Fox News segment in which host Neil Cavuto and guest Michael Karolchyk debate whether Presid...

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Regina Benjamin, New Surgeon General

bloomberg.com | Jonathan D. Salant and Kate Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

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Regina Benjamin, a specialist in rural health care who founded a clinic to serve the poor along Alabama's Gulf Coast, was named by President Barack Ob...

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Obama Faces First National Security Failure as Sotomayor and Health Care Hang in the Balance

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kimberly Krautter

Last week's sustained cyber-attacks on some of our country's most sensitive government networks exposed how a country that lives by the technology can also perish by the technology.

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Addressing America's Health Care Disparities

Clayola Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Racial Health Disparity, Primary Care, Surgeon General, Health Care, Children's Defense Fund, Health Disparities, Politics News
Clayola Brown

Providing health care for all must recognize and address health disparities that exist among minority populations.

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Stop Big Food From Using the Playbook of Big Tobacco

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paula Crossfield

While millions still die of smoking related illness every year, it's not too late to lift the veil from Big Food, and in doing so, save lives and public health for years to come.

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