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UN food aid agency helps create online game to fight hunger 30 November 2011 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Japanese electronic entertainment company Konami Digital have teamed up to release an online game today that can support the fight against hunger. The game, Food Force, takes players through the process of planting, harvesting, processing […]
Working to prevent melanoma The most recent issue of Stanford Cancer Institute News(.pdf) contains a feature on efforts to prevent melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer. Among the work being done here is a campaign to raise awareness of the disease among middle-aged and older men, who have the fastest-growing incidence and mortality rates: Men with less obvious risks […]
Latin American poverty levels fall to lowest in two decades, UN report finds 30 November 2011 – Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which highlights public spending levels as one of the key factors that has allowed the continent to continue […]
Bollywood star to focus on child nutrition in new role as UNICEF ambassador 30 November 2011 – One of Bollywood’s biggest names, the actor-producer Aamir Khan, today became the newest Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), teaming up with the UN agency to promote better nutrition for children. Mr. Khan, 46, will use […]
The (2015) Quilt: Fighting for an AIDS Free Generation … … Every generation is known for something. Let’s be the one that delivers an AIDS FREE GENERATION by 2015. Every day 1,000 babies are born with HIV. By 2015, that number could be near zero. Add your voice to (RED) and ONE’s digital (2015)QUILT – […]
Open for Questions: The Beginning of the End of AIDS Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, and President Obama will be marking the occasion by speaking at ONE Campaign and (RED)’s Beginning of the End of AIDS event at George Washington University. You can watch the whole event live on YouTube.com/TheONECampaign … An exclusive World AIDS Day […]
Stanford class teaches students how to live a happier, healthier life Today, the San Francisco Chronicle offers a look at a Stanford course aimed at teaching life skills and boosting students’ happiness and health. In the article, Fred Luskin, PhD, one of the course instructors, discusses some of the core principles of the class and how it’s helping students balance their busy […]
States receive more flexibility, resources to implement Affordable Insurance Exchanges More than half of states now creating marketplaces to help millions of families and small businesses buy insurance The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today awarded nearly $220 million in Affordable Insurance Exchange grants to 13 states to help them create Exchanges, giving […]
“Herd immunity” causes dramatic drop in infant chicken pox In the early 1990s, Stanford scientist Ann Arvin, MD, led research that helped explain immune responses to varicella zoster, the virus that causes chicken pox. Her work contributed important scientific background for introducing the chicken pox vaccine. Now a new study from the Centers for Disease Control examines how widespread use of […]
Stradivarius violin replicated through the magic of radiology Radiologist (and amateur violinist) Steven Sirr, MD, and collaborators have created a reproduction of a 1704 Stradivarius violin using computed tomography (CT) images. According to a Radiological Society of North America release, here is how the team did it: The original violin was scanned with a 64-detector CT, […]