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

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

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.

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

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.

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

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.