The Trustees of The Gerber Foundation expect the Foundation’s grant dollars to make a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children. Through our grant-making efforts, the Trustees are committed to improving the health and well-being of the youngest members of our society.
The primary focus of grantmaking is on health and nutritional issues affecting [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A study involving chocolate milkshakes is helping scientists get a better understanding of how the brain influences obesity, with genes playing a role, too.
Obese people may get less satisfaction from food due to a blunted response in brain circuitry relating to pleasure, and may overeat to make up for the decreased pleasure, [...]
Avian flu hits central Vietnam
Hanoi – Authorities have detected the H5N1 avian flu virus in ducks in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, the third outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam since September 1, a government official said Tuesday. Bui Quang Anh, director of Vietnam’s Animal Health Department, said the outbreak had killed [...]
Australian Stocks: Market plummets five per cent
MELBOURNE – The Australian share market plummeted to close five per cent lower today as the continuing fallout from the global credit crisis wiped $56 billion from the value of stocks listed on the local bourse.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped more than 7 per cent [...]
A report released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization associated with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, examined abortion rates in the U.S. between 1974 – the year after Roe v. Wade – and 2004.
“There’s been a shift in the population of women obtaining abortions relative to 30 years ago,” said Rachel Jones, a [...]
When we say “medicine” we usually refer to the type of care one gets in the office of an M.D. or in a hospital. This care usually includes scientific diagnosis and treatment with pharmaceutical drugs or surgery. This is the excellent medicine, based on research and technology, that we have the good fortune to enjoy. [...]
The increases are down slightly from a year ago and are the lowest since the study began in 2001, Aon Consulting said.
“Unlike some other health-care trend surveys, Aon Consulting’s survey reports the expected future increase in employer-provided health plan claims cost before any plan changes, based on the opinions of health plan actuaries,” said [...]
TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) — The risk of relapse can linger for some breast cancer survivors even after completing five years of what doctors call systemic therapy, a new study found.
But, as gloomy as that news sounds, there is a relative bright spot: the risk may not be as dire as many women fear. [...]
Being screened for prostate cancer probably seems like a no-brainer to most health-conscious men, given that the disease is the second-most common cancer in American men as well as the second-most deadly, affecting one in six men.
But earlier this week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of primary care experts that issues guidelines [...]
Avery’s Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need has launched a national action campaign aimed at mobilizing grassroots women to speak out at Congressional town hall meetings and candidate forums about problems in the current health system and the need for health reform. The campaign emphasizes women’s roles as health decision-makers and coordinators [...]