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.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

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.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

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.