We humans developed a communication methodology by naming specific days to remind us of our failures and negligence. So what comes in to my mind when I think about the world environment day?

First of all regrets, then responsibility! Regrets, because we neglect the space of the next generation by giving topics as environment, safety and health a minor importance.

Regrets, that we talk and celebrate these events but we do not make the message a core aspect of how we live, work and develop our future.

Regrets that we are irresponsible on how we react on harmful actions and do this only then, when it is just too late and human lives are lost.

We have a responsibility that we owe to the next generations. For this reason, when we celebrate World Environment Day we should first put ‘responsibility’ before everything else. We should not end up to say: “If we only knew!”

Happy World Environment Day.

A significant amount of the well known diseases in our society can be cured through early diagnosis and by taking early preventive measures. However, early prevention and detection is not limited with periodic checkups; it also requires the physician to analyze Family related health problems. In the situation where a family has a track record of a certain disease, an early detection – in particular at a young age – is imperative. Unfortunately, who can remember health problems of our Grandparents or ancestors? It has never crossed the minds of those who had knew of it, that by documenting and passing it to the next generation may save the lives of their children and grandchildren in the future. Today we are able to detect and prevent many known diseases (for example ‘Alzheimer’) through carrying out various laboratory tests, imaging, or by tracing reliable medical records of our Family members in addition to genetic tests¹. For this reason we should retain all family health records, document it and pass it to the next generation. ”It might save their lives”.