Doctors Doing Better but Still Avoiding Talks About Overweight Kids

Though doctors are doing better than they used to, the vast majority are still not telling the parents of overweight kids that their kids are overweight. In a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (study), researchers asked the parents of close to 5,000...

(Video) Inequality and Health - Richard Wilkinson on TED

At CNiC, we're big fans of many of the TED presentations, the way they often communicate complex ideas through the use of effective displays of hard data.   One recent TED post we like is a sixteen minute presentation by Richard Wilkinson on the impact of economic inequality on a wide range of issues that relate to health and quality of life....

Smoking cessation: The rapid road to preventing cancer mortality

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Preventing Breast Cancer through healthy growth and high school diet

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