Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.