The following summarizes selected womens healthrelated blog entries.~ “U.S. Catholic Bishops Health Care Bill Funds Abortion,” Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Reports “God & Country” In a letter to House members released on Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned health care reform legislation HR 3200 proposed by House Democrats, claiming that its [...]

A new multisite study by UCLA and RAND Corp. researchers and colleagues has found that 7 percent of fifthgraders and their families have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives and that the occurrence is even higher 11 percent for African American children and those from the poorest households.
The study [...]

A new Auburn Universitydesigned, hightech pharmacy in Meridian, Miss., is the first of its kind and is a model facility that could be built in communities across the United States.
Auburn pharmacy professors Kenneth Barker and Betsy Flynn led a multidisciplinary team in designing the recently opened facility for Vital Care Inc., which will help pharmacists [...]

Current CIHRfunded research Dr. Usoa Busto at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto is investigating why so many people with mood disorders are also addicted to alcohol, nicotine, or gambling. Bustos team has found that people with mental illnesses and a nicotine addiction may have lower than normal levels of dopamine, [...]

New research suggests for the first time that frequent bouts of sporadic activity could be just as beneficial to childrens health as longer exercise sessions. A team from the University of Exeter measured the frequency, intensity and duration of bouts of physical activity in a group of children and analysed the results against a number [...]

In honor of National Childrens Mental Health Awareness Day, Goldie Hawn, child advocate and founder of The Hawn Foundation, campaigned for effective childrens mental health programs at a Congressional briefing today.
“Children represent a fraction of our population, but 100% of our future. One in ten suffers from serious mental health disorders, and [...]

“President Obamas push to reenergize the fight against the AIDS epidemic in the United States led to concern that he was going to allow U.S. global leadership in fighting the disease to languish,” a Washington Post editorial says, adding, “Those fears ought to be calmed after Mr. Obamas announcement Tuesday of an initiative that will [...]