Could this day be the first day of a life without the addiction and fear of tobacco? Join millions on this day and “Butt Out”.
The Great American Smokeout is held each November to help smokers quit cigarettes for at least one day, in hopes they will quit forever. This year the quit date is [...]

November joins National Home Care & Hospice and National Family Caregivers Month. Each seeks to draw attention to the many challenges facing family caregivers, advocate for stronger public policy to address family caregiving issues, and raise awareness about community programs that support family caregivers.
The focus of hospice relies on the belief that each of [...]

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a serious lung disease that, over time, makes it hard to breathe. It is the 4th leading cause of death and the 2nd leading cause of disability in the United States. The number of people with COPD is increasing. More than 12 million people are currently diagnosed with COPD [...]

Diabetes is a real growing epidemic among Americans and American children. It is a preventable disease. Learn what you can do to turn the tide
There are 20.8 million people in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people [...]

Responding to growing pubic pressure for healthier foods, KFC announced today that it is switching to a trans fat-free frying oil. The announcement said all 5,500 U.S. restaurants will switch by next April. Following suit, KFC Canada announced that by early next year all 786 restaurants across Canada will be using [...]

Join with others in the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project, a national effort to draw public attention to the current maternal death rates, as well as to the gross underreporting of maternal deaths in the United States, and to honor those women who have died of pregnancy-related causes since 1982.
The Project is the vision of [...]

Researchers at the University of Davis California are unveiling a new pet project that turns garbage into useable fuel.
Starting today, tons of table scraps from the Bay Area’s finest restaurants will be turned into clean, renewable energy at a new UC Davis research and technology demonstration facility.
The “biogas” plant uses bacteria mixed with [...]

Well if you haven’t got the message on eating veggies yet, here is one more reason, they help you keep your wits about you. Fruit apparently did not have the same impact
Eating vegetables helps slow down the rate of cognitive change in older adults, says a new study published in the October 24, [...]

Australian researchers have found that exposure to measured doses of ultraviolet light, such as sunlight, could reduce asthma.
The research team at Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, through funding provided by the Asthma Foundation of WA, studied the effect of ultraviolet light on the development of asthma-like symptoms in mice, such as inflamed [...]

A new study finds that cell phone use may lower a man’s sperm count. This follows three European studies early this year , (in Germany, England and Sweden) by three different research groups that found a significant increase in the risk of brain tumors in cell phone users of ten years or [...]