Medicines in the Medicine Cabinet

Protecting your family and the environmentIt’s hard to know these days just what to do with the old medicines in your medicine cabinet. It seems one way or another, they’re a threat to other human beings. Recently we learned that if you throw them out, and especially if you flush them down the toilet, they […]

Access Excellence

Nurturing as an anecdote to bullying This week’s program on bullying in our nation’s schools has touched a vein and drawn an immediate response from young and old alike. The damage done by bullying extends into the future. The messages I received reinforced that disconnection and anger and despair are predictable byproducts of lives absent […]

School Bullies

The damage they do is serious and long-lastingRecently the problem of school bullying reared its ugly head. The airwaves featured a youngster in Arkansas, progressively and deliberately isolated, abused, tormented and damaged. The problem is large, complex and pervasive, according to the American Medical Association. How large a problem? A 2001 study of nearly 16,000 […]

Influenza Update

Bird Flu is still a concern Flu season this year hasn’t exactly played by the rules. Its second wind nationwide may be beginning to wind down. Experts say some of this is related to the effectiveness of this year’s vaccine. HHS and all of its various divisions expend a huge amount of time, effort and […]

Trusting the Experts for Accurate Health Information

Have we educated the public to recognize heart attack symptoms? Hollywood is hot for drama, and when it comes to portraying a person having a heart attack it can be misleading. Gasping, struggling for a breath, holding the chest as if it is about to explode or clenching an arm tightly all make for great […]

Prevention Through Affordable Access

The price of contraceptives is skyrocketing for those least able to afford them As some of you may know, the Deficit Reduction Act came into effect last year, causing a dramatic increase in contraceptive prices across college campuses. Traditionally, Congress has expanded access to affordable prescription drugs for vulnerable populations by permitting pharmaceutical companies to […]

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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