Information Universality

In the future patients will come to us; they now come only if they absolutely must Life’s crazy – between the economy, Iraq, race relations, gender relations, “made in China” – well, we have a lot on our minds, and not much extra time, and even less extra cash. Multiply that up to the national […]

Health 2.0

Weighing in with a reality checkMaybe you saw the article: “Health 2.0 Helps, But Personal Contact Remains Top Weight Loss Strategy.” OK. I made up the headline. But the information comes from an article that provides food for thought for those of us who speak, blog and otherwise evangelize about the good things the Internet […]

Outdoor Medicine

Hospitalito Atitlan I’m delighted to be able to contribute to Health Commentary by sharing some of my important posts from my blog at Healthline entitled "Medicine for the Outdoors," which can be reached by visiting Healthline. I recently completed a week working at the Hospitalito Atitlan in Santiago, Atitlan, state of Solola in the highlands of […]

Desalination Comes to America’s Shores

Our oceans could be a water source. But is the cost too steep? Those familiar with my "Health Politics" programs know that I’ve spent a lot of time over the last several years writing and speaking about water issues. I’ve written a book, "Healthy Waters," on the topic, and have recently been on the road […]

EPA’s Air Quality Standards Disappoint

“Half measures and compromises are not enough” says Lung Association Jim Cundiff, Program Director, Central Area, of the American Lung Association of Florida, was good enough to make me aware of the Association’s strong reaction to the EPA’s recent action on Air Quality Standards. The announcement didn’t mince words. It began like this: "Today, the U.S. […]

Thanks, Warren!

Notes on caregiving from a colleague in Louisiana Warren Hebert, a home-health executive in Louisiana who is also a registered nurse, attended the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) meeting last year when I spoke there. He contacted me recently by email to let me know that he was distributing a summary of my speech […]

Loving Our Children

The Right’s refusal to acknowledge that abstinence-based education is a failure is tantamount to neglect Among its many less-noticed accomplishments, this Administration has strangled funding for comprehensive sex education. Instead, it has thrown the immense weight of the US government behind abstinence-based education, an impractical ideological approach rooted in religious zealotry and a romantic notion […]

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