Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take..

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional ….

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life..

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health..

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same t….

Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the L….

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days..

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when ….

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minut….

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them..

Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one i….

When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the….

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a ….

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so t….

The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each….

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people….

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were aske….

I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I ….

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed a….

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and le….

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes..