Health and Wellness

(Marketwired) - Treasured memories are often created on family vacations. For some families with a child affected by autism, taking a vacation, especially if it means traveling by air, is not always possible due to the fear of the response it could elicit from their child. The large crowds, loud ...

Deepak notes, “I have been meditating daily and teaching meditation for over 30 years. It’s one of the most important things one can do. I recommend meditation on a regular basis, once in the morning and evening.” Some of the most successful people in the world practice meditation such as Arianna...

Bob Evans employee-volunteers arrived at the Earthworks Urban Farm early Thursday morning and were immediately split into work teams and given tools and instructions for harvesting the tomato crop, planting new fall crops, weeding, composting and mulching.  The volunteers were there as part of Bo...

Baltimore Area Cadillac Dealers have partnered with CBS EcoMedia Inc. through its WellnessAd advertising to fund 17 Starlight Tablets for two Baltimore-area hospitals, University of Maryland Children’s Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

A ceremonial “Power On!”

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.

The proje...