(Genetics Society of America) The Genetics Society of America honors five genetics researchers and educators with its 2012 awards, whose research, support of colleagues and contribution to the public understanding of genetics may involve the use of model organisms such as mice, plants, and Drosophila.

How best to ensure environmental justice for Native Americans in terms of policy, governance, and activism on tribal lands? The broad range of issues, challenges, and possibilities are explored in an insightful and thought-provoking special issue of Environmental Justice entitled "Environmental Justice in Native America." Environmental Justice is a peer-reviewed ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) How best to ensure environmental justice for Native-Americans in terms of policy, governance, and activism on tribal lands? The broad range of issues, challenges, and possibilities are explored in an insightful and thought-provoking special issue of Environmental Justice titled "Environmental Justice in Native America."

Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.

Essilor has further expanded its presence in fast-growing markets by signing five new partnership agreements in North Africa and Latin America.

A survey of 337 retirees on Medicare revealed that 45% believe the economy is the most critical issue facing America in 2012 - beating out the national debt (21%); jobs (19%); and health care (15%) for the top spot.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study done using DNA analysis and partly undertaken by the University of California, Irvine, has found evidence to support the premise that malaria was brought to South America via the African slave trade in the sixteenth century, rather than much earlier as some have suggested. The ...

Fifty years after its inception, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging will have a more important role than ever as America's senior population continues to grow, according to the newest issue of the Public Policy and Aging Report (PPAR). For five decades, the committee has called attention to pressing ...

"Declining malaria deaths in Africa and progress toward an effective malaria vaccine are raising hopes the disease will soon be eradicated worldwide," but "researchers at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [on Monday] unveiled a new global malaria map that ...

With signs of declining malaria deaths in Africa raising hopes of eradicating the disease worldwide, researchers unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) a new malaria map that is the first to identify on a global scale where the long-lasting and potentially ...

CORAL GABLES, FL (December 5, 2011)--The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the presence of gays in American advertising. The media has transformed the stigmatized stereotype of gays into a new, socially desirable image of stylish consumers with high-end taste. This marketing strategy affects the way gays ...

(University of Miami) The University of Miami School of Communication releases research findings about gays in mainstream advertising.