Sunday, September 8, 2019

How to Lose Weight and Improve Health

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Weight loss is always high on most people’s New Year’s resolution list. For something that is desired by so many of us, it is surprising how...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

A True Community Health Needs Assessment

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The IRS requires charitable hospital organizations to conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every three years and to adopt an i...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Achieving Equitable Cancer Care Access in Texas

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Much is known about what influences the health of a community, including individual health behaviors as well as social and economic determ...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

Money, Insurance, and Health: An Unfair Relationship

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Money doesn't buy happiness, or so they say. But money can buy better health. Add one more difference between the haves and the have not...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Suicide: More Common Than Ever

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A Rice University classmate and friend of mine – a 57 year old woman and mother of two – committed suicide on Easter Sunday. She was going t...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Dental Health is Community Health

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We need to return to adding fluoride to our water supply. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that fluoridation of...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Continue CPRIT Cancer Research Funding

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The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) was created in 2007 when Texas voters supported legislation setting aside $3 b...