May is WIC Month in Pennsylvania
Maternal and Family Health Services (MFHS) is celebrating the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program during WIC Month this May 2015. During WIC Month, the state celebrates the positive...
View ArticleTexting for Health: SafeTeens Answers! “Upgrades” Health Education with New...
Pennsylvania nonprofit brings reproductive health education into the digital age with a teen health textline. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) June 23, 2015 Maternal and Family Health Services (MFHS)...
View ArticleMFHS Seeking Nominations for 2015 Rose Allan Tucker Award
Maternal and Family Health Services is seeking nominations for the Rose Allan Tucker Award, which will be presented at the agency’s 44th Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors on October 28th at the...
View ArticlePocono Medical Center Partners with Maternal and Family Health Services to...
(Source: PMC - Pocono Medical Center) Wednesday, July 06, 2016 - Pocono Medical Center Partners with Maternal and Family Health Services to Provide Free Women's Health Screenings for Eligible...
View ArticleHouse boosts fight vs malnutrition
Home Press Releases PRESS RELEASES SOURCE: Press and Public Affairs Bureau House boosts fight vs malnutrition 17-September-2017, 03:03:43 PM The House of Representatives this week approved on second...
View ArticleImproving engineering education through outreach to the next generation...
(Source: James Madison University) Share This By Rachel Petty ('17), JMU Public Affairs Why do students choose the majors they study in college? Oftentimes, at least for students in engineering, the...
View Article“It is My Dream to Leave This Place”
Summary If I would touch her little hands or feet, she retracted, like a turtle inside of her shell. For about two or three months we struggled to establish some sort of physical contact. The first...
View Article“I Had a Dream to Finish School”
Summary I liked to study so that I could have a wide mind. There was nothing I didn’t like [to study]. I had a dream to finish school and go to college, graduate, and work as an accountant. Like...
View Article2016 NYS Assembly Significant Legislation - Dec-31-2016 (New York State...
(Source: New York State Assembly) 2016 NYS Assembly Significant Legislation AGING Rent Increase Exemption Reapplication Forms establishes a reapplication short form for individuals who have been...
View ArticleDon't miss your chance to nominate a Texan of the Year candidate
Nominate a candidate for Texan of the Year Individuals nominated in the past week for the 2016 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year include folks who are hard at work -- often behind the scenes -- to...
View ArticleDFID in the News
World Humanitarian Day - 19 August 2017 There has been widespread media coverage of the Department for International Development for World Humanitarian Day 2017, including by BBC Breakfast, Channel 4,...
View ArticleDespite Global Gains, Efforts Must Be Redoubled to Stamp Out Targeted...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Comprehensive measures and international cooperation were necessary to protect children from violence, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today...
View Articleadopt the proposed policy on sex work
CATW’s opposition to Amnesty International’s ‘draft policy on sex work’ is misguided. A coalition of sex workers’ organisations and advocates fills in the gaps in this open letter to AI. Sex workers...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleMeet the top 100 business visionaries creating value for the world
At Business Insider, we believe capitalism can and should be a force for good. With this inaugural edition of Business Insider 100: The Creators, we are celebrating leaders who embody this spirit. Many...
View ArticleRe: Early Impact of the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy in...
October 13, 2017 The Honorable Rex Tillerson Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Re: Early Impact of the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy...
View ArticleSteering Efforts into Post-2015 Era, Population and Development Commission...
(Source: UN - United Nations) The Commission on Population and Development adopted today a draft decision that would guide its future efforts through the post-2015 era, as the body continued a general...
View ArticleHILLARY CLINTON, BERNIE SANDERS AMONG LEADERS IN PUBLIC SERVICE, LAW,...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders lead a roster of distinguished leaders in public service, law, science, technology, business, the arts and...
View ArticleEconomic Security Programs Help Low-Income Children Succeed Over Long Term,...
Government economic security programs such as food assistance, housing subsidies, and working-family tax credits - which bolster income, help families afford basic needs, and keep millions of children...
View ArticleChildren with disabilities: Deprivation of liberty in the name of care and...
ABSTRACT In many countries, children with disabilities are often deprived of their liberty, separated from family environments, and confined to institutions or locked away in so-called health-care...
View ArticleTrump’s Deadly Legacy: The First Six Months, Timeline of US Policy Changes,...
Note: With few exceptions, sources are from mainstream media. January 20, 2017 Trump Inauguration (Friday): – Trump signs first executive action canceling Obama’s FHA mortgage rate premium cuts...
View Article“I Won’t Be a Doctor, and One Day You’ll Be Sick”
Summary Sixteen years after the US-led military intervention that ousted the Taliban government , an estimated two-thirds of Afghan girls do not go to school. And as security in the country has...
View ArticleConservatives and liberals agree on this: Chip and Joanna Gaines are Texan of...
Nominate a Texan of the Year The deadline is fast approaching to add your nominee to the more than 100 names that we've already gathered for this year's Texan of the Year, to be announced in late...
View ArticleMilestones in Indian Healthcare
Express Healthcare chronicles 16 areas of change in Indian healthcare and retrospects on their impact Augmenting Health Indices The last 16 years have been eventful for India, dotted with significant...
View ArticleThis Federal Agency Is Concerned About the Rising Rate of...
Cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) had been declining until the 1970s. However, a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)1 reveals that trend has...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View Article“Just Let Us Be”
Summary [Senator and boxing legend] Manny Pacquiao says we’re not human. They should just let us be. – Edgar T., an 18-year-old gay high school student in Manila, February 2017 Schools should be safe...
View ArticleIllegal midwives and border babies: The determined fight for home birth in...
Ashley Loper, 27, is in the throes of labor. She’s on her hands and knees, naked, alternately quiet and screaming expletives, on a bed in a room in a rented house in southern Mississippi. Classical...
View ArticleFunding body gives strong support to Otago’s health research (University of...
(Source: University of Otago) Wednesday, 15 June 2016 9:22am University of Otago researchers have been awarded around $43.8M in new health research funding to support their world-class studies aimed at...
View ArticleAmicus Curiae: Decriminalization of Abortion in the context of the Zika virus...
HONORABLE MINISTER DR. CARMEM LÚCIA ROCHA, PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME FEDERAL COURT, RAPPORTEUR OF DIRECT ACTION OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY - ADI No 5581 Direct Action of Unconstitutionality n 5581 HUMAN...
View Article“Manna From Heaven”?
Summary The president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, once described the discovery of oil in the 1990s off the coast of the small Central African nation as “manna from heaven,” the...
View ArticleUTSA centennial honors renowned, late Congress Henry B. Gonzalez (UTSA - The...
(Source: UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio) Civic leaders honor renowned public figure Henry B. Gonzalez 05.04.16 Photo credit: Camille Garcia, Rivard Report On May 3, 2016, civic leaders,...
View ArticleAcademic Briefs: Nov. 25 - Dec. 22, 2015 (Saint Francis University)
(Source: Saint Francis University) Who organized a campus reading of poetry? How much money was raised during Movember? Who went to Panama? Where is the new hydraulic flume on campus? Find out here:...
View ArticleHas Dak been in town long enough to qualify as Texan of the Year?
With the Dallas Cowboys boasting a string of victories not seen around these parts since 1977, it's no surprise that QB Dak Prescott received more than a few votes among this week's nominations for the...
View ArticleTexan of the Year 2016 nominees
Below you will find the full list of nominees received for the 2016 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year. We received almost 600 submissions recommending almost 200 nominees (some nominees were named...
View Article“No Control, No Choice”
Summary Four years ago, after 14-year-old Hassina Soulyman spent two days in labor at home, weak from loss of blood and falling in and out of consciousness, her family knew something was terribly...
View ArticleTime's growing short for Texan of the Year nominations
Nominees for Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year aren't required to be heroes. The short-and-sweet definition is "A Texan (or Texans) who has had uncommon impact -- either positive or negative --...
View ArticleSummary of 2016 Senate Legislative Action (New York State Senate)
(Source: New York State Senate) 2016-2017 NEW YORK STATE BUDGET The New York State 2016-17 State Budget reflects the Senate Republican Conference's commitment to improving the economic opportunities...
View ArticleMinistry of Health and Family Welfare Notable Achievements and Initiatives-...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) 1. Mission Indradhanush The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched 'Mission Indradhanush', depicting seven colours...
View ArticleFueling the Philippines’ HIV Epidemic
Summary The Philippines is facing one of the fastest-growing epidemics of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the Asia-Pacific region. According to official statistics, HIV prevalence among men who...
View Article“Our Time to Sing and Play”
Summary Thirty-seven percent of girls in Nepal marry before age 18 and 10 percent are married by age 15, in spite of the fact that the minimum age of marriage under Nepali law is 20 years of age. Boys...
View ArticleNeglected and Unprotected
Summary On a Friday afternoon in October 2015, Luciana Caroline Albuquerque Bezerra, the executive secretary of health surveillance for the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, received a call from her boss,...
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