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International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred) today announced its Field for Hope campaign, an international awareness effort that seeks to end the stigma of depression by asking supporters to "Pledge to Plant" a virtual ...

The Safeway Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), have teamed up to develop a print, radio and digital public service announcement featuring actress and SU2C Ambassador Marcia Cross. The ...

The Big Three among American foundations subsist in networks of high-level contacts and influence; they fund research groups, projects, and conferences, and confer prestige on those they support. Purportedly philanthropic, they state a commitment to ...

For Dick Vitale's guests of honor Friday night, the eighth annual gala to benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research was personal. Former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden and ex-UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun said they were thrilled ...

Johannesburg - Stigma, discrimination and underfinancing. These have been found to be the widespread causes in governmental and donor neglect in the fight against HIV among gay men, men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people (GMT) in ...

A disease from animals that was identified more than 100 years ago might be the newest public health threat in developing countries. Virginia Tech researchers have identified leptospirosis as a significant health threat in Botswana. The world's most ...

UC's receipt of a grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enable Electrical Engineering Professor Andrew Steckland and Pharmacy Associate Professor Giovanni Pauletti to develop an ultra-low-cost screening device for a tropical ...

) - CRC Press / Productivity Press is pleased to announce that nine of its recent publications have been honored with the prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. This prize is awarded to authors who advance the Lean body of ...

Topics: Delivery of Care, Health Costs, Hospitals, Insurance, Marketplace, Public Health, Quality, Aging, Medicare, Health Reform Each week, KHN reporter Alvin Tran compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. JAMA ...