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Posted by geri
Thursday, 04 September 2008
Regular, moderate exercise may help improve memory in older people and delay the onset of dementia, a study in Australia shows. Here is the Reuters link. (Photo courtesy of Sun Star) Add Comment (0)

Posted by geri
Thursday, 04 September 2008
2008 was a good year for enviros in the boardroom. A record 57 climate related shareholder resolutions were filed this year—a figure that has doubled over the past 5 years. Support for these measures averaged more than 23% among shareholders-- another all time high. (Environmental News Network) Add Comment (0)

Posted by stevegh
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
More and more American parents are driven by a desire for social change and confidence that the disease is more manageable than ever before. Margaret Fleming, who has three children diagnosed as HIV-positive in her own brood of 12 children, said she wanted to make a difference in the world. (AP story via Christian Science Monitor) Add Comment (0)

Posted by stevegh
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
He is an 86-year-old with the vigor of a man in his 30s. He can hike over five miles without breaking a sweat and rappel a 60-foot tower with a ready smile. But nothing makes him smile like the boys in Troop 73. It’s Josiah’s one true calling. He knows what scouting can mean in the life of a boy because he knows what it meant in his own. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Add Comment (1)

Posted by stevegh
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
As barns fade from the rural American landscape, efforts are being made to preserve them. A fieldstone barn started to crack in the 1990s, and when residents of Chase, Wis., (pop. 2,082) had the opportunity to collectively purchase and restore the 1903 building – one of only a handful of stone barns left in the state – they jumped at the opportunity and obtained a loan from the local bank to buy it. (Christian Science Monitor) Add Comment (0)

Posted by Graciela Sholander
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Fourteen-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps today announced the establishment of the Michael Phelps Foundation and made his first donation by committing the well-publicized $1 million bonus he will receive from Speedo(R) for winning eight gold medals. Read More Add Comment (2)

Posted by geri
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
A valley in Bulgaria's mountains, for decades known for making AK-47 rifles, now has blossomed into a supplier of organic rose oil for beauty products, reviving a centuries' old industry. Every morning at dawn hundreds of villagers hustle through fields of rose bushes to pick fresh blooms still damp with morning dew. (Reuters News has the story) Add Comment (0)

Posted by bivvy
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
Scientists say they have taken a big step towards blocking a chemical vital to the growth of many cancers, an enzyme which, when active, helps keep cells in an "immortal" state. The chemical is at work in more than nine out of ten types of tumour. (Read details of the latest report from journal Nature at BBC) Add Comment (0)

Posted by geri
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
Entertainer Jerry Lewis helped raise a record $65 million in pledges and contributions through his 43rd annual MDA Labor Day Telethon in Las Vegas. Lewis performed his signature song, You'll Never Walk Alone, during the 12-hour broadcast. Read More Add Comment (0)

Posted by stevegh
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
A handful of doctors-in-training are marrying their love of medicine with their social conscience at one of four social residency programs in the country — caring for the poor while learning to become doctors. (Charlotte Observer) Add Comment (0)

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