Occupation: Former United States Surgeon General Birth: October 14, 1916 Death: February 25, 2013
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….
The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others..
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together..
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go ….
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….
Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the L….
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….
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….
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….
In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life..
The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger..
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play..
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….
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….
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society..
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.
The best prescription is knowledge..
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them..
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health..
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days..
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century..