I just read an article on the Economist summarizing a study conducted by scientists from Clemson and Yale that details strategies for vaccinating large populations. This new research disputes the long held notion that protecting the individual is the best way to combat a virus. An idea that goes against the current practice of vaccinating those [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 26th, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Tagged with: advice, CDC, children, doctors, Economist.com, flu vaccine, H1N1, research, Spanish Flu, strategy
Doctor David Ludwig, a pediatrician, and Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at New York University, spoke with U.S. News and World Report this week about the food industry and how junk food companies are misleading the public in their efforts to market “healthy” eating for children.
First, some background. The CDC released statistics earlier this year [...]
Filed under: News on July 31st, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Tagged with: childhood obesity, children, education, food, Food Industry, health, Kraft, labeling, marketing, Nutrition, Pepsi, reporting, standardization
There is much discussion out there about the amount that people should be giving away. With my focus on the balance of business and philanthropy, I think this is an important discussion. I hope this video adds a bit to the discussion. It includes motivational thoughts and information about the organizations I’ve been lucky enough to [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on July 28th, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
Tagged with: charity, children, giving, philanthropy
The Child Vision Campaign is a special program that I have developed. The initiative has established international partnerships with organizations that have extensive experience in the field of blindness prevention. Now, that experience and expertise, gained through working with hundreds of thousands of people, is being applied to building improved service delivery systems and programs [...]
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.