A Campaign to Get a Disease Some Respect
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Dr. Orin S. Levine has a relentless focus on pneumonia, the No. 1 killer of the worldÂs children.
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Experts at a seminar yesterday urged the government to incorporate the HIV/Aids issue into primary and secondary textbooks to create awareness about the disease at the grassroots level.
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Public-health campaigns regularly plug exercise as a sure-fire way to avoid an early grave. But that message may be too simplistic.
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Compassion would seem to be an easy sell. Who could be against adoption and AIDS research? Who could object to attacks on the scourge of breast cancer or the evil of Soviet-era communism?
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The scandal-tagged IPO wants some respect.
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DEAR ABBY: I know you care about individuals taking steps each day to improve the quality of their lives. Please help me spread the word about improving the health of millions of Americans.
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Parents of children with distinct genetic mutations are seeking out others to form support networks.
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Celebrities who take their charity work seriously are to be recognised.
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A government campaign will seek to encourage people to upgrade their skills through education and training.
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A medical experiment aiming to help end Scotland's reputation as the "sick man of Europe" seeks volunteers.
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To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the nation must launch a massive campaign enlisting virtually every aspect of society to reduce the amount of junk food children eat
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Every day, millions of people are bombarded with health information through direct-to-consumer drug ads on TV. Millions more go online to research a new diagnosis
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BARCELONA, Spain -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide but not nearly enough is being done to educate people about how they can lessen their vulnerability, experts said Tuesday.
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The grants aim to test the idea that diseases such as trachoma and hookworm, which largely afflict the rural poor, can be tackled together more effectively than one at a time.
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NEW YORK  - A government-sponsored diabetes  education group launched a new campaign on Tuesday to address  what they say is one of the nation's growing health problems:  diabetes among the elderly.
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News of an effective vaccine against malaria being developed is certainly a shot in the arm for the fight against this disease which kills over a million children and infects an estimated 300 million annually.
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CAMPAIGNERS hope that shocking statistics on the global epidemic of heart disease and strokes will prompt countries to take action to reduce risks to health.