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Tumors Stalled in Women with Advanced Breast Cancer
A new drug stalls the growth of tumors in women with advanced breast cancer. Testing was stopped after noting the drug's effectiveness, so that...
Expanding Coverage to More Pregnant Women in Texas
From the Student Operated Press comes this good news for low-income pregnant women. A U.S. program expands access to prenatal health care in nine...
New EU Rules Strengthen Safety of Kids’ Medicine
Currently, more than 50 percent of medicines used to treat children in Europe have not been specifically tested on them or authorised for...
Plastic Bio Bottle is Composted into Plant Food
Belu Natural Mineral Water last week launched the UK’s first biodegradable and compostable plastic bottle. The revolutionary plastic bottle is made from corn instead...
Pitt and Jolie Welcome Baby Girl
Angelina Jolie gave birth to a baby girl, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt in a hospital in Namibia, Africa. There is no word on the condition...
Chesapeake Bay’s Grasses are Renewing
Grasses in the Chesapeake Bay are rebounding, covering double the acreage they did in 1984. In 2005, grasses, a key component of the bay's...
Michigan’s Rouge River Back from Brink
Michigan's Rouge River has been returned to health thanks to the Clean Water Act, $1 billion and measures to filter runoff from surrounding factories,...
Ride Your Bike to Work Week: More People Peddling to Jobs
2005 was one of the top years for bike sales in the U.S. with 20 million bikes sold. 2006 promises to be a record...
One in a Million Chestnut Tree Discovered
In an amazing discovery in Georgia, a small patch of American Chestnut trees, which were largely wiped out due to a quick-spreading fungus in...
Carter Center Eradicates Guinea Worm in Africa
When former US President Jimmy Carter saw the suffering in the developing world caused by a little known disease called Guinea worm, he updated...
Migrating Wild Birds NOT Carrying Bird Flu
Scientists monitoring avian influenza in water birds report that "millions of water birds have already migrated from Asia to West Asia and Africa, but...
Jaguars Returning to U.S.
It seemed that jaguars were gone from the United States. The cat's historic range extended from northeastern Argentina through Brazil, Central America, Mexico and...
Innovation Wins Good Government Awards for Six States
Six state programs, ranging from Maine's comprehensive health care reform to Wisconsin's environmental program for businesses, are competing for $100,000 grants in one of...
UN Polio Campaign Underway in Afghanistan to Safeguard Two Million Children
More than two million Afghan children are currently being immunized in a United Nations-backed three-day polio eradication drive following a sixth reported case of...
New Orleans gets $60 Million Boost from Tiny Arab Nation
New Orleans receives a big boost this week from the small Persian Gulf country of Qatar who is paying-up a large chunk of the...
In Southern Sudan, 250 demobilized child soldiers trade weapons for textbooks
UNICEF officials, parents, and local and military leaders celebrated the demobilization of 250 youngsters from armed forces and groups in Southern Sudan last week....
Schools Take Action on Overweight Kids
In response to a steep rise in obesity among children, some public schools are taking action. It shocked me to learn that only 6...
Rhode Island Embarks on Statewide Broadband
America's smallest state is seeking to become its first to offer a wireless broadband network from border to border. Reuters reports on...
New Therapeutic Approach to Obesity uses Body’s own Hormone to Limit Hunger, Increase Activity
A new therapeutic approach to treating obesity uses a naturally occurring hormone. The best news is that the chemical comes from our own bodies,...
Good News Network Relaunched (April 25, 2006)
Is the Media Unbalanced? One Network Asserts Public Health is Served by its Positive News Tilt, Readers Attest to Medicinal Effects
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