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$3 Billion Stem Cell Research

The $3 billion is historical and highly significant as it clearly overshadows the mere and current $300 million federal spending; both for adult and ...

Pfizer Health Scholar In Uganda

The Global Health Fellows program represents a new approach by Pfizer to corporate philanthropy. The program pairs highly skilled Pfizer colleagues with NGOs for ...

Back To Basics

If your typical day includes three square meals coupled with lots of snacks, in between meals, and no movement i.e. exercise, then you really ...

Giant’s Toomer & HealthPlus Fund Playgrounds

"Health Plus strives to support the nurturing and development of our children throughout the city, particularly in underserved areas," said Tom Early, Executive Director ...

Vincent Ferguson: Giving the Skinny on Obesity

The purpose of Body Sculpt of New York was to go out into communities and talk to children and encourage them to stay in ...

Diabetes, HealthCare, Obesity, Cholesterol….

You can get diabetes if your body does not use insulin right. Insulin in your body changes the sugars in food into energy. Type ...

Union Poised to Strike if Health deal not reached

More than 10,000 New York City office cleaners and building service workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize the Local 32BJ Bargaining Committee to call a ...

The Importance of Screening for prostate cancer

If you are a male over 50, or are over 40 and at increased risk for prostate cancer because you have a family history ...

Exercise and Diet for boosting Black women’s health

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) operates a program that encourages Black women to maintain a healthy weight by ...

National Diet Campaign to improve Black males’ health

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson and National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Andrew von Eschenbach announced a national ...