• Cancer vaccine study offers hope

    Administering the HPV vaccine may prevent cervical cancer in teenage girls, an Australian-based research group found. The two-year study, published in The Lancent medical journal surveyed females between the ages of 12-26 from 2007 to 2009. Three years after vaccination, fewer teenage girls developed precancerous abnormalities. Study leader Dr. Julia Brotherton said this is the

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  • Newberry Township Picked for ‘Extreme Home’ Makeover

    Navigating the cramped rooms in his Pennsylvania home is just one of the challenges 23-year-old Brian Keefer, paralyzed from the neck down by a gymnastics injury in 2008, overcomes every day. When the bus for ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” rolled into their driveway Sunday morning, the family was overjoyed. Host Ty Pennington and his

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  • Charitable giving shows modest gain

    A Giving USA Report published Monday found that Americans are feeling slightly more charitable despite the current economic downturn. Following two straight years of declines, individual and corporate donations jumped about two percent, after adjusting prices for inflation. In 2009, donations plummeted to the lowest they had been in 40 years, but 2010's report shows

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  • 10 Things Life Insurers Won’t Tell You

    Life insurers have your life in their hands, but may care more about your pocketbook. Smart Money, 6/20/2011

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  • Homeless students find home at school

    Private donors in one of Las Vegas’ most poverty-stricken neighborhoods give hope to young students. Only Positive News, 6/20/2011

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  • Providing Help to Spouses of PTSD Sufferers

    The spouses of those coming home from war with post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) often suffer through tremendous amounts of stress of their own.  A program was started at Walter Reed Hospital to help these wives take better care of themselves.  According to the report, the government lists some 78,000 soldiers with PTSD, but there

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  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp

    Watch Nightline's Bill Weir jam out with some of the biggest rock music gods, and learn about how these rock fantasy camps are making a difference and enhancing people's lives.  We've been following these rock fantasy camps since our January story on the topic (in our Entertainment, Books, & Humor category as well),  in which

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  • Best Beauty Buys: Where you buy beauty products, stores or online, can save big money

    Turns out there's a huge difference in the price of cosmetics depending on the shopping websites or stores you frequent.  Consumer Reports' ShopSmart Magazine sent secret shoppers out to compare prices at different stores.  Harmon Discount had the highest number of low-priced items, while CVS had the most high-priced items.  ConsumerReports.org, 6/15/2011

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  • Peace Laureates Take on the War on Women

    According to the UN, one in five women will face sexual assault worldwide.  The startling statistic prompted six Nobel Peace Laureates to create the Nobel Women’s Initiative to stop sexual abuse as a weapon of war.  To kickstart their efforts, the organization held a three-day international conference in Canada. Women's Media Center, 6/15/2011

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  • Will Ferrell gets serious about cancer

    When his close fraternity brother overcame cancer and started Cancer for College, a charity that gives scholarships to college students living with cancer, comedian Will Ferrell was among the one of the first donors. Now that Ferrell’s fame has grown, he has become more invested in the cause, investing more than money and spending time

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  • When warming up for exercise, less may be more

    A new study out of the The Journal for Applied Psychology revealed that some athletes exhaust themselves with a warm-up even before beginning to exercise. Though researchers are unsure of whether everyone must warm-up before working out, they found that those with a more leisurely warm-up were less fatigued and performed better. The New York

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  • Biodegradable Products May Be Bad For The Environment

    Decreasing your carbon footprint may require more than just buying biodegradable products. A recent study shows that in order to fully reap the benefits of these products, Methane collection in landfills must increase and products should be redesigned to degrade more slowly. Newswise/ North Carolina State University, 5/31/2011 

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  • FDA Warns Not to Feed SimplyThick to Premature Infants

    SimplyThick is designed to help premature babies swallow, but some babies are developing an intestinal disorder that has already proven fatal twice.  Two premature infants died as a result of having the thickening agent SimplyThick added to their breast milk or formula.  There have been 15 cases reported from around the country – all premature

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  • The nose knows: Allergy season here with a vengeance

    Here's some unfortunate news related to climate change: The odd and severe weather we’ve been experiencing since last fall has put us in a vulnerable spot in terms of this year's allergy season.  And we can no longer escape to a location free of pollen and its effects on us, as this explosion has hit

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  • Movie trailer marriage proposal is this year’s true blockbuster

    We found a twist on the movie circuit: Matt wanted to marry Ginny, so he made a movie short leading in to his proposal.  He convinced a local movie theater in GA to run his movie as the trailer before the main movie.  Watch the actual film he made, and simultaneously watch Ginny’s reaction in

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