Hello again from the Big Apple.

Today started with breakfast at Gracie Mansion with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. I visited with Mayor Bloomberg last year and saw him again earlier this month at the start of the New York City Marathon. We are both concerned about a range of public health issues – including smoking bans in public places and city spaces for exercise. The Mayor and I also talked about Dr. Freeman’s work in Harlem and other public health issues of concern to New Yorkers.

Next Doug and I went to lunch with our friend Kathy Giusti who co-founded the…

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Checking in today from New York City ….

I spent much of the day today with a hero, Dr. Harold P. Freeman. Dr. Freeman is my friend, a member of the LAF board of directors and the medical director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem.

But more than all that, Dr. Freeman is a hero. He is the pioneer of the concept known as Patient Navigation and our county’s leading authority on race and cancer.

Doug and Andy and I had lunch with Dr. Freeman at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem on Lenox Avenue and the parade of his neighbors and…

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Welcome back, everybody. Hope you had a great holiday weekend and a Happy Thanksgiving.

It was an eventful week at Armstrong House. My twin girls, Grace and Isabelle, turned six last Wednesday and we celebrated with a big party at my house. Their mom, Kristin, and I planned the party √¢‚Ǩ‚Äù an American Girl Totally Tropical √¢‚Ǩ‚Äù themed bash. Kristin and I spent the afternoon managing a rodeo of about 30 girls. It was a whole lot of noisy fun. I can’t believe they are already six years-old.

On Thursday morning the girls, their brother, Luke, and I headed to Plano to…

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People without health insurance are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer and more likely to forgo important screening tests, like mammography and colonoscopy. Cancer survivors are often denied coverage or only offered coverage they can’t afford.

That means that the more than 47 million Americans who lack health insurance are more vulnerable to cancer and less likely to benefit from early detection – which saves lives.

You might think that a presidential candidate who has survived cancer – including candidates Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson – would be particularly focused on making sure that Americans have…

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