The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.