This is a busy month for all of us. One of the biggest events we host during the year is a holiday open house. It started out as a way to get new patients to visit the clinic, take a tour and have the opportunity to ask questions about our practice. It has evolved into a way for us to say thank you to our patients and community for supporting our ...

  Heather Riddle, a pediatric nurse practitioner in Florida, has taken the kind of bold step I love to read about. She decided to do something definitive to halt childhood obesity: She opened a fitness center for children. Her business, called Kicks for Kids, is located in Spring Hill (near St. Petersburg) and opened in late October. In ...