Health and Wellness

Since 2007, Athletes for Hope has been committed to helping athletes make a difference in the world; today marks another major step towards achieving that goal by announcing a new partnership with NIKE Inc. The partnership connects Athletes for Hope’s over 2,000 profes...

ViiV Healthcare today announced the launch of a four-year, $10 million initial investment to fuel a concerted community response to the HIV epidemic among Black Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Baltimore, Maryland and Jackson, Mississippi, two U.S. cities hard hit by HIV/AIDS. The goal for this...

Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo: 4503, “Astellas”) announced today that the company will now make trial data available through www.clinicalstudydatarequest.com, an independent W...

GMO Free USA today published the results of independent lab testing which documented that Kellogg’s Froot Loops cereal contains high levels of insecticide-producing genetically engineered corn that is regulated by the EPA. Tests also documented the presence of glyphosate, the main chemical ingred...

Mars, Incorporated, in partnership with UC Davis, is launching the Innovation Institute for Food and Health, part of the World Food Center at UC Davis, with a day-long symposium on January 14. Laureates and other leading scientists are set to discuss major challenges relating to improv...

On average, nearly 50% of Americans will make a New Year’s resolution.  Many of these resolutions will focus on health.  Community Health Charities is encouraging employers to help their employees keep their health resolutions in 2015 by focusing on early detection and prevention. 

In its continued efforts to wipe out malaria and prevent the spread of malaria disease by anopheles mosquitoes in the Mimika Regency in Papua, Indonesia, PT Freeport Indonesia, in conjunction with local institutions, recently distributed mosquito nets and sprayed insecticide in the hom...

Vaatsalya, one of the most innovative companies in India has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA). The company has made a commitment to improve the quality of the life by improving access to affordable health options by scaling up their model of affordable and primary and secondary healthcar...

Fly Movement, a kids’ wellness program that gives fitness bands to third graders, kicked off on October 27 at KIPP Dream Prep in Houston and is seeing its first signs of success. 

Fly Movement is a new kids’ fitness program tha...

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) today announced that the company and its foundation has committed to invest more than $1 million in grants to support tobacco cessation and prevention programs. The grants will be distributed to leading health care and community partners working to promote tobacc...