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Look Foward to Aging – for the Fitness
This story is a great feature on aging with fitness, from the LA Times. The paper also reports that age can actually be an...
Nike Designs Shoe for Native Americans, Donates Profit
Nike yesterday unveiled the Nike Air Native N7, a unique athletic performance shoe designed specifically for Native Americans. The N7 is the result of...
Countries Agree on Plan to Save Animals
Over one hundred countries are taking action to save endangered livestock breeds using genetic stockpiling to preserve a wide variety of species, according to...
U.S. Breastfeeding Rates Rise to Record High
"The percentage of U.S. mothers who breastfeed their babies has reached the highest level on record amid mounting evidence that it provides many health...
The Food Dudes: Making Kids Want Their Veggies
The UK has one of the lowest fruit and vegetable intakes in Europe, and as a consequence, Britain now has one of the worst...
UK Readers Donate Thousands to 3-Year-Old Ethan for Treatment of Rare Condition
Three-year-old Ethan is readying for the first of several operations in Germany to remove disfiguring cysts on his face and head from a...
Donations Pour in for Brittle-Bone Survivor
Donations are pouring in for the woman featured in a California newspaper and here on GNN (first read the original story here). "Gail...
Brittle Bones Can’t Crack Woman’s Spirit
When Gail Rennetty was a baby, she cried every time her mother touched her. She had so many broken bones by the time she...
Gates Foundation Gives $9.7 Million to Pediatric AIDS Research
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to give $9.7 million to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The grant will allow for clinical...
15,000 Children Sing for Sick Boy at Shea Stadium
A charity group called Songs of Love has recorded 12,000 original songs personally for sick children, including this song for seven-year-old Ronald Sterling, who...
Heart Patients Living Longer
Heart disease rates have been falling for decades due to healthier lifestyles, but now death rates after severe heart attacks have been cut in...
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...