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 at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

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.

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 I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

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 right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.