Health Resources

Environmental working group

Learn more about the value of a plant-based whole foods diet and how this can resolve many chronic health conditions.

Forks Over Knives plant-based cooking 90-day course.

Culinary Rx plant-based cooking 12-hour course.

Offers many resources for stress management, mindfulness and meditation, nutrition and healthy diet, movement, community, and personal development.

Includes easy-to-understand handouts for evidence-based approaches as alternatives to pharmaceuticals to common health conditions.

Provides information on common conditions with easy-to-understand handouts in English and Spanish.

Provides self care handouts in English and Spanish.

Mindful Observer: Fact-based health news and wellness tips.

Research and resources based on the lives of the world’s longest-lived cultures. 

A self-compassion meditation by Dr. Kristin Neff

Hosted by Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Victoria Maizes, episodes feature insightful conversations with experts about ideas that are changing medicine today. From the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

Weekly episodes by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee to empower individuals to become the architects of their own health.

New York Times bestselling author Dan Harris hosts episodes featuring special guests discussing various aspects of mindfulness.

Episodes feature “fascinating conversations with some of the most insightful people in the world.”

Thought-provoking episodes addressing some of the most important questions of our time with neuroscientist, philosopher and NYT best-selling author Sam Harris.

Article abstract from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “Adding 10 primary care physicians has a 250% greater influence on life expectancy than an equivalent bump in specialists.” (based on US mortality rates from 2005-2015)

Article abstract from the International Journal of Health Services. “[the availability of] primary care is by far the most significant variable related to better health status, correlating with lower overall mortality, fewer deaths from heart disease and cancer, and a host of other beneficial health outcomes.”

Forbes article covering the findings from the International Journal of Health Services study titled, “Primary care, specialty care, and life chances”.

A research-based approach for healthy relationships

Learn more on the website Dr. Hicks created on this topic.

Mosaic Guest Blog Post by Dr. Hicks

The tips from the AAP are based on research and resources compiled over several years, are easy to read and applicable to most families.

Common Sense Media provides advice and tools to help use the power of media and technology as a positive influence on children’s lives.  This is a great place to check for age appropriateness of all varieties of digital media.

ESRB assigns ratings to apps and video games so that parents can make informed decisions.

The Family Media plan is a helpful tool for some families to visualize how and when digital media fit into their lives.

The Vaccine Knowledge Project from Oxford University