Preliminary research shows that memantine (Namenda) holds promise for migraine prevention.
If you only do one thing to honor the men and women who have served our country in the military this Veterans Day, please write your Senators and ask them to support the Veterans Pain Care Act of 2007.
When asked about her as a manager, people who have worked for Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic senator from New York, described her as "organized," "methodical" and "disciplined." They also note that those words were never applied to her husband, Bill Clinton.
A study prepared by the National Association of Scholars, a group that combats political correctness on campuses, reviews social work education programs at 10 major public universities and comes to this conclusion: Such programs mandate an ideological orthodoxy to which students …
With a forceful message and a roster of wealthy benefactors, Freedom's Watch has quickly emerged from the crowded field of nonprofit advocacy groups as a conservative answer to the nine-year-old liberal MoveOn.org, which vehemently opposes the Iraq war.
from the article: George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency.
I must be the only mom who dreads seeing this sigh...
This site provides training materials for those who want to be advocates for disability policy.
Bicycles -- the most energy-efficient form of travel ever devised -- deserve more respect. Pound for pound, a person on a bicycle expends less energy than any other creature or machine covering the same distance.
Remember, that when you choose your wife or husband or life partner or relationship, you are not only making a statement to yourself, not only making a statement to that other person, but you are also making a statement to the world.
There are a number of Americans who are direct victims of substantial waste, fraud, and abuse by their local, state, and/or federal government. The population is undoubtedly small in comparison to all Americans inhabiting the United States.
Some 20 million boomers are caring for their families while trying to provide care for aging parents. Few know what they are getting into, says Donna Schempp, program director of the Family Caregiver Alliance, a San Francisco advocacy group.
Last spring, I found myself wandering down a path toward the Milwaukee River, where it runs through the urban Riverside Park. At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the young people I encountered.
From NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), a campaign site with a social feel and viral tools that hopes -- along with others like stopglobalwarming.org and stepitup07.org -- to catapult public will past the tipping point and solve this problem.
Great piece about the changing landscape in public health and the social sector about adolescents, teenagers and young adults with cancer. Great read! Kudos Lauren.
From the article: NEW DELHI -- Exciting things happen when dedicated bloggers from around the world meet for the first time. For Briton Rachel Rawlins, being introduced to Tunisian exile Sami Ben Gharbia was the chance to meet a personal hero.
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is taking the world by storm, but while it's put the word "wiki" into the vernacular, it's far from given that all wiki-driven sites will succeed. Writer Aaron Swartz explains why.
This is just a stub in a wikipedia article; it would be interesting to read the study itself.
When the president surrounded himself with 18 families with ``adopted" embryos and stamped this bill with his first-ever veto, he set back the science another year. Case closed.
Her nickname is the Condom Grandma, even though for most of her life Miriam Schuler talked about sex only to her husband and her doctor. But nine years ago, Mrs Schuler, 87, decided to do some volunteer work in her community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She already worked on tw …
Center for American Progress Takes Forceful, Liberal Stance -- After national security adviser Stephen J Hadley delivered a speech unveiling President Bush's new national security strategy, departing audience members were handed glossy, red-white-and-blue booklets titled "Integr …
An important piece of insight is the best part of this article. Lawyers and advocates need to work very closely together, because "a lawsuit without a movement is not going to win."
Advocacy group says same-sex adoption should be allowed -- despite absence of evidence of how kids are affected.
Libraries have lost so much funding and federal legal support that they are now bringing lawyers into the fold for training on advocacy issues.
So I've been usign Newsvine a total of two days and I'm telling my friends about it.