Health and Wellness

Executives and staff members from throughout Barnabas Health, New Jersey’s largest hospital and health care system, dug in and got their hands dirty planting, mulching, weeding, hauling, cleaning and painting in an energetic employee volunteer day Tuesday at City Green Schultheis Learning Farm. T...

Unilever’s soap Lifebuoy today called for hygiene to be recognised as a key intervention to reducing child mortality, both in the last 900 days before the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline and in the post-2015 development a...

Global health will be a main focus this week for both the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and the United Nations General Assembly. Global Impact, a leader in global philanthropy, will participate in both events, as well as represent Global Health Council (GHC), serving as that organization’s secr...

For the first time, municipal and thought leaders around the country will gather to chart a path to ensuring all children get the play they need to thrive. Play is critical to the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and creative development of children. But play is disappearing in homes, schoo...

For many students, returning to the classroom in the fall also means the return of steady meals. Blessings in a Backpack, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that elementary school children who may otherwise go without meals are fed over the weekends, today announced results of a partnership with C...

Ajinomoto Co. brings its expertise in nutrition and food science to improve nutrition in Ghana and announced today it will join the Business Call to Action (BCtA), with plans to expand its pilot nutritional supplement program reaching an estimated 200,000 weaning infants by 2017.

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Philadelphia Tri-State Cadillac dealers have partnered with CBS EcoMedia Inc. through its WellnessAd advertising to fund 41 Starlight Tablets for three Philadelphia-area hospitals.

A special “Power On!” ceremony launched the program on Wednesday. The celebration took place...

Today more than 200 local volunteers from UnitedHealthcare The Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade, AARP, Miami Dade College’s Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy, and the Miami Dolphins Special Teams driven by Chevy Volunteer program, participated in a Day of Service at Olinda and Jefferson ...

More than 50 volunteers built a new community garden at Mountain View Park in Phoenix. The garden was made possible by a unique public-private partnership between the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department, UnitedHealthcare, CBS EcoMedia and the National Recreation and Park Association. ...

On 3 September, Novo Nordisk and the Indonesian Ministry of Health launched a joint platform to guide efforts to address the rising prevalence of diabetes and its associated costs. The platform is built on the findings from Novo Nordisk’s