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Palestinian and Israeli Doctors Join to Improve Kids’ Health
"Well aware that children on both sides of the divide have long suffered from the Arab-Israeli conflict, 300 Israeli and 100 Palestinian doctors and...
Deaths from Severe Heart Attacks Cut in Half
Heart disease rates have been falling for several decades since we've learned how to live healthier, but now death rates for those who've entered...
Six Million Children Immunized Against Measles In DPR Korea
Six million children in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) aged six months to 15 years have been immunized in a massive United...
$500 Million Pledge to Reverse Childhood Obesity in U.S.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced it will commit at least $500 million over the next five years to tackle childhood obesity. The...
Mankind Has Never Been Healthier, Wealthier or Freer. Surprised?
Environmentalists and globalization foes are united in their fear that greater population and consumption of energy, materials, and chemicals accompanying economic growth, technological change...
Five Ways the United Nations is Saving People and the Planet
In 1997, the owner of Cable News Network, Ted Turner, shocked the world when he handed over a billion dollars to the United Nations....
Scientists Find Way to Slash Cost of Drugs
Calling for 'ethical pharmaceuticals,' two professors have "devised a way to invent new medicines and get them to market at a fraction of the...
States Take the Lead on Health Care Reform
Massachusetts has accomplished the improbable: It got Democrats and Republicans to agree on how to provide nearly every resident with health insurance. And it...
Natural Cures Effective Against Cancer, ADHD
Natural Cures and Healthy Living Effective Against Cancer, Parkinson's and Behavioral Disorders
• Omega-3 Fish Oil has proven to be a better ADHD Treatment than...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: 5) Bono Helps Provide Free AIDS Drugs to Africa
5) Bono Joins Kenya and India Providing Money for Free AIDS Drugs, Saving Thousands • Hollywood and corporate stars added their...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: 2) Generosity Surges
2) Billionaire Warren Buffett Leading New Wave of Generosity with Largest Donation Ever Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man donated $37...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: 1) Bold Steps Reduce Global Warming
With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...
Top Ten Good News of 2006!
With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...
Sharp Decline in US Breast Cancer Cases
A new analysis of breast cancer rates in American women released this week revealed a startling decline in the disease. Researchers believe that millions...
Brushing and Flossing Helps Your Arteries, Too
Can a toothbrush help clean out your heart? Surprisingly, yes. Brushing and flossing your teeth has been shown to be a simple preventative step...
Encouraging Voice Will Never Be Heard Again
The first time Doris Barton phoned me, I was having a bad day... I probably answered by barking my name like a perturbed Jack...
Film Review: Beyond the Call, a Double-Helping of Humanitarian Adventure
Opening in theatrical release this week, Beyond the Call is an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, in which three middle-aged men, former soldiers,...
Autism Eases, Given Body’s Own Oxytocin
Hug The Monkey is a Web site about oxytocin, the hormone of love and enjoyment: Lewis Mehl-Madrona is an M.D. who doesn't see...
Death Rates in US Hospitals Much Improved
The largest annual study of hospital quality in America, issued this week by HealthGrades, finds death rates among Medicare patients continue to decline. The...
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Commits to Plant 50 Million Trees
Enterprise Rent-A-Car will commemorate its 50th anniversary by pledging the unprecedented gift of 50 million trees to The National Arbor Day Foundation.
Enterprise has formed...