Transforming Discovery into Health

Science is not a 100-yard dash. It is a marathon — a marathon run by a relay team that includes researchers, patients, industry experts, lawmakers, and the public. Although we have accomplished much, biomedical research still has an enormous amount of ground to cover before discovery is turned into health for all Americans. Continue Reading, 'Transforming Discovery into Health'

Feature: Reducing Childhood Obesity

• Healthy Weight, Healthy Child
• Get Involved How Parents and Kids Can Get Involved in Good Health
• We Can!
• The Weight-control Information Network (WIN)
• 4 Top Healthy Snacks
• Wanted: Active Role Models for Today's Kids
• 6 Easy Steps toward healthier eating

Feature: Too Much Salt

• Salt: Too Much of a Good Thing
• Labels: For your health
• Quiz: What's the buzz about salt?
• Tasty Stand-Ins for Salt

Feature: Breast Cancer

• The Match of Her Life
• Breast Cancer Basics and You
  • Introduction
  • Detection and Diagnosis
  • Staging and Treatment
• Braving Breast Cancer: Just Do It!
• Quiz: How much do you know about breast cancer?

Celebrating Leadership in Public Health and Medicine

The 2010 FNLM Annual Awards Dinner, held May 11 in Washington, DC, brought together hundreds of representatives of public, professional, and business sectors in healthcare to show their support for NLM. Continue Reading, 'Celebrating Leadership in Public Health and Medicine'

Feature: Ticks and Diseases

• Bite Fright!
• How to Remove a Tick
• Tick-borne Diseases: The Big Two

Then & Now: Research Pays Off for All Americans / Back to the Future: Slimming Down the Old-Fashioned Way

In an extensive report on overweight and obesity in America, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that average adult Americans are 25 pounds heavier than they were in 1960. Continue Reading, 'Then & Now: Research Pays Off for All Americans Back to the Future: Slimming Down the Old-Fashioned Way'

HealthLines

• Heavy Drinking, Poor Eating
• Baby's Heart Defects Linked to Mom's Obesity
• Scientists Discover First Genes for Stuttering
• Sleep Apnea Tied to Risk for Stroke

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