Health and Wellness

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The rate of childhood obesity in America has more than tripled since 1980(1), and, in Florida, 32.5 percent of children ages 10 to 17 are overweight or obese(2). Compelled by the serious and widespread threat of the obesity epidemic...

UNITED NATIONS, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is appealing for $3 million to address the urgent humanitarian concerns of cyclone-affected populations, particularly women and girls, in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady and Yangon regions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Salvation Army in the United States this week launched an appeal to raise money for the long-term response to the disaster in Myanmar caused by tropical cyclone Nargis. Currently, the organization has personnel ser...

BALTIMORE, MD - May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While the international humanitarian community awaits greater access to cyclone affected areas of Myanmar (Burma) and the estimated 1 million displaced citizens, Lutheran World Relief (LWR) continues to work through local par...

BALTIMORE, Md., May 9 /PRNewswire/ --

WHAT: Passport Health, nationwide travel medicine providers and disaster response experts will prepare anyone traveling to Myanmar to assist with recovery efforts after Cyclone Nargis. Cholera has broken o...

FORT MYERS, Fla., May 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Fort Myers-based nonprofit New Missions Systems International (NMSI) is organizing relief efforts for people critically affected by the cyclone that devastated Myanmar in Southeast Asia earlier this week. The organization is in d...

ST. LOUIS, May 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- While there is no instruction manual for raising teens, parents now have the benefit of learning from each other about how to help prevent underage drinking via a new online resource.

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RADCLIFF, KY - May 8, 2008 - Kentucky National Guardsman, Sergeant Mark A. Kinslow took a sniper bullet to the head on February 13th, 2007 and lived to tell about it. What he and his family did not anticipate were the lingering after-effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorde...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA "“ April 30, 2008 - The Spring issue of Organic Style magazine (www.OrganicStyleMag.com) highlights visionaries who have taken courageous, inspiring action in pursuit of humanitarianism ...

WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria continues to devastate communities in tropical regions throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the malaria epidemic causes de...