The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.