Medical Student’s Idea Sparks Bill That Calls for Warning Labels on All Sugary Drinks He got the idea for a bill that would mandate a warning label for sugary drinks from the students he taught in his high school science class. Teaching in a low-income public school in San Jose, Tom Gaither, now a first-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, said students were allowed to bring drinks to class — and many of them brought sugar-laden sodas and energy drinks. “So many of the kids didn’t know how bad surgery beverages were for them,” says Gaither. ... February 20, 2014 Medical Students, Public Health Medical Students, Obesity, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »