Carine Chen-McLaughlin, coordinator of Case Management Operations at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has been selected as one of 50 Social Work Heroes for Justice by the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

The Center for Public-Private Partnerships at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Heroes of Military Medicine awards. These individuals have distinguished themselves through excellence and selfless dedication to advancing medicine for our nation's wounded, ill ...

(Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine) The Center for Public-Private Partnerships at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Heroes of Military Medicine awards. The recipients will be honored at the Heroes ...

Later this month, India will be removed from a dwindling list of countries where polio is considered endemic, a huge achievement made possible by people like Madara, a 76-year-old street hawker.

GP receptionists play a major and important role in ensuring that patients get the correct treatments when they need them, according to a study* published today (3 November) in the British Medical Journal.

Veronica Cappalonga, 28, knows a lot about living with cancer. Diagnosed at age 6 with leukemia and at 22 with a malignant brain tumor, the Los Angeles (Mar Vista area) resident will walk in the Nov. 6 Heroes of Hope Race for Brain Tumor Research - not only to help ...

(American Chemical Society) Two scientists developed a drug that helped pioneer the era of "personalized medicine" for cancer patients, while another scientist invented today's predominant technology for genetic sequencing, deciphering the DNA that makes up the genes of living things. The American Chemical Society honored all three today at the ...

A U.S. senator, an Army leader and a military surgeon are among the "Heroes of Military Medicine" to be honored May 4 by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine's Center for Public-Private Partnerships.

SATURDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Your past record of good deeds won't help you escape blame when you do something wrong, suggests a new study. But you may get off easier if you're perceived as a victim. U.S. researchers looked at study participants' reactions to a number of ...

As part of its ongoing efforts to stop bogus health claims, the Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement requiring major marketers of children's vitamins to stop making false and unproven claims that their supplements promote healthy brain and eye development in children. The companies have agreed to pay ...

In this season of hope and giving, the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) are teaming up to invite the public to "send a touch of home" to U.S. service members and veterans across the country and abroad through the Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign. Now in ...

Comic books may help to educate young men and their partners about testicular cancer and its early symptoms and encourage them to do more self-screening, according to Ryerson University School of Fashion professor and comic book artist David Brame. Brame is the lead author of the study, Ain't Nothing ...