Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

The two toughest lessons to learn In life are “LET GO” & “LETs GO..!

Go ahead, let them judge you.

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.