David Spade may be a funny dude, but he knows when it's time to get serious. E! News has exclusively learned that Spade has donated $200,000 to the American Red Cross to go toward...
Our gut is home to trillions of bacteria, numbering more than the cells in the rest of our body, and these bacteria help us to digest our food, absorb nutrients and strengthen our immune system. This complex bacterial ecosystem, called the gut microbiota, also helps to prevent bad bacteria from...
In Africa and Thailand, communities that worked together on HIV-prevention efforts saw not only a rise in HIV screening but a drop in new infections, according to a new study presented this week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. The U.S...
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Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. Between 1961 and 2007, rising meat consumption...
With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of the environment to slow warming's damage to the planet. But a University of Iowa law professor believes the legal ramifications of this...
More people are better off thanks to the impact of an influx of direct-to-consumer advertising spending than they would be without those marketing efforts, according to a study recently published by Jayani Jayawardhana, an assistant professor in the University of Georgia College of Public...
KiwiSkills digital literacy project transfer from NZCS to the 2020 Trust as a joint coordinated approach from the ICT sector in improving digital literacy in New Zealand.
The Juice is back for its fifth season of fun! Stop by each weekday for an ample serving of news from the action, plus great photos, stats and video highlights.
Harper sends 'em home: Fans at Nationals Park who were waiting for Bryce Harper to do something ... anything! ... on Tuesday night...
The Millennium Villages Project was introduced into sub-Saharan African villages in order to co-ordinate improvements amongst multiple sectors, including agriculture, infrastructure, the environment, health, education and business...
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Recent events such as the ten-year commemoration of September 11th just weeks ago, Hurricane Irene striking the east coast this past summer, three months of oil spills off of the Gulf Coast a year ago, and the tragic earthquakes that struck Chile and Haiti in early 2010, are constant reminders...
for some reason im getting an eerily similar vibe from this so called "secular" movement to reform their government, i have suspicions that it is being orchestrated by Islamic extremist groups, they are promising wealth, food, shelter and military/social revolution in the same way that the Nazi...
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new requirements for State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIP) grants to increase beneficiaries' awareness about certain provisions in the Affordable Care Act, including new Medicare prevention and wellness benefits...
The Verizon Foundation has awarded an additional $100,000 in grants to Food For The Poor and World Vision to assist ongoing relief efforts in Haiti in response to a cholera outbreak and in the aftermath of Hurricane Tomas and the 7.0 earthquake that hit the island earlier this year. The...
shooting ourselves in the foot? I recently watched a video from TAM 8 (The Amazing Meeting) where astronomer, Dr. Phil Plait, expresses his concerns about the way that skeptics and critical thinkers are responding in online debates and discussions. Here's a link to the video...
The Wall Street Journal mined a database with extensive information about tax payments that suggests fraud and discovered a New York City doctor who most likely took more than $2 million from Medicare. But the paper could not name her because of strict confidentiality requirements on physician...
Even with tablets ruling the IFA show last week, Google still thinks the future is with netbooks—well, for Chrome OS anyway. In an interview with TechRadar, a Google product manager confirmed they are prioritizing netbooks at the moment. More »
Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and its philanthropic foundation the Abbott Fund are providing $335,000 (Rs 28.7 million) in initial humanitarian aid to help with flood relief efforts in Pakistan. Working in partnership with global relief partners and local organizations in Pakistan, Abbott and the Abbott...
The BBC reports on discussions about childhood immunization at the International Pediatric Association (IPA) meeting last week in Johannesburg, South Africa. "Vaccines are a key plank in meeting Millennium Development Goal 4 - to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015 - and many sessions...