If you want to live longer, lose weight — so say various studies. But, there’s another, more effective way to increase your own, your spouse’s and your children’s longevity, without the sweat or the bland food — it’s staying married.
The PA Commission for Women turned the Point State Park Fountain bright pink, in observance of national Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) announced two significant initiatives to support the cause of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, working to raise awareness and to provide a minimum donation of one hundred thousand dollars to local research, detection and treatment programs.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is primarily responsible for medical research in India. During the last 97 years, the ICMR has responded effectively to the changing health needs of the country by developing infrastructure and has built capacities to meet newer challenges in health research and healthcare industry of global standards.
The University of Minnesota has been awarded nearly $14 million dollars over five years to be a lead study center in the National Children’s Study to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States. The study center will manage local participant recruitment and data collection in the largest and most comprehensive study of child and human health ever conducted in the United States.
The Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, and two other Hartford centers in the nation, have been funded for a four-year $1.2 million grant to ensure that nurses have the most recent evidence-based guidelines for caring for elders with mental health issues.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has received a $4.1 million federal grant to develop ways to improve the early growth and development of premature infants who have two or more social-environmental risks such as poverty or minority status.
A University of Western Sydney study which explored men’s experiences of depression has revealed that gender has a significant impact on the success of mental health treatment.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that, as of 2 October 2007, a total of 25 out of 76 suspected cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever from the province of Kasai Occidental have now tested positive for the disease.
According to a study carried out at the Department of Experimental Sciences of the University of Granada immigrant teenagers eat better than Spanish teenagers. For this reason, immigrant teenagers have a lower probability of suffering from obesity, diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases caused by bad eating habits.