The leading causes of death among African Americans are heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes.

The fact that cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease in children makes me so committed to this cause. By shaving your head, you can be a hero for children with cancer. It's a perfect match because kids lose their hair during cancer treatments, and people will pay money to see you bald.

I treated this as a public health emergency, ... A drug that had an 8-to-1 vote in favor of approval and that could any day be approved by the FDA to be used by any of 18 million Americans with type 2 diabetes was, by my analysis, doubling of risk of serious irrevocable cardiovascular events like death, heart attacks and stroke. I dropped everything.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

According to accepted newspaper clichés, we all go down fighting. The other day I even read that an 18-month-old baby had died after a long battle with cancer. That has become the mandatory phrase for all who expire, disease-ridden. They battled valiantly; they lost. When I finally depart I hope somebody will write, instead, that I died after a long battle with life.

It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is for children to learn geography, ... These are important life skills that are not intuitively obvious.