Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

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

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 minutes for 27 years.

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

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

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 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 other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.