Healthline Blogs
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What Are Your Priorities?
I was really struck last month on vacation by how much I loved having unstructured time with my daughters and in comparison how much of our time together during the school year happens while on the way to medical or dental appointments, school act...
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Thank You: Grand Rounds 3.51
Thank you Dr. Joshua Schwimmer at Efficient MD for hosting this week and including my post about Teens and Health Care in Grand Rounds 3.51. It was an eclectic group of posts and some interesting reading!Photo Credit: web_guy94301Tags: Healthline,...
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Unhooked: Book Review by: Leigha Winters, college student
Recently, I read a thought-provoking book that Nancy Brown recommended (and reviewed) called Unhooked. Every time I would comment on this book to a friend, it would inevitably spark a fascinating and lively conversation about sex, pleasure, and “...
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Metabolic Syndrome and Teens
As the rates of obesity rise in teens there is also a rise in a cluster of heart disease and diabetes risk factors known as metabolic syndrome. Obese teens are the most likely to have metabolic syndrome, which includes high cholesterol and triglyc...
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The Best of the Medical Blogosphere
Those of you who are regular readers of blogs know that many bloggers link to other bloggers. This is a good way to find more bloggers talking about health information. I wanted to give a note of thanks to the host of this week's "Grand Rounds" fo...
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HIV Infection in People Over 50
To follow up on my post about talking to your grandparents about HIV last month, I wanted to point you to the newest topic on the CDC's HIV/AIDS web page - "Persons Aged 50 and Over."The new site suggests that the increase in the number of people ...
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The Changing Face of Teen Health Care
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. - AristotleIf we consider the trends over the last twenty years, teenagers are participating in fewer high risk behaviors. They actually drive sa...
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Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2006
The latest report from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) presents selected health measures for children under 18 years of age, by sex, age, race, family structure, parent education, family income, poverty status, health insurance coverag...
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Emergency Preparedness for Teens Home Alone
I have encouraged parents to put an In Case of Emergency (ICE) number into their children's cell phones, as well as some names of adults you trust to help in an emergency when the parents cannot be reached, but what I forgot was to encourage paren...
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Talking to Teens About Alcohol
Last weekend an intoxicated 16-year old Orinda teen died in a hallway during a party, a preventable loss that disturbs any sane person. It makes me obsess about why our culture encourages the use of alcohol as part of celebrating and socializing, ...
