PITTSBURGH, This year’s Susan G. Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure® attracted more than 27,000 participants, including approximately 2,000 breast cancer survivors. The winners of today’s Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure 5K are as follows:

1st Place Overall Winners
Male: Mark Grogan; 15:54
Female: Anna Beck; 17:53

2nd Place Overall Winners
Male: Kevin Beganics; 16:41
Female: Michelle Corkum; 19:40

3rd Place Overall Winners
Male: Gregory Byrnes; 17:00
Female: Elizabeth Perry; 19:47

Survivor Category Winners
1st Place Survivor: Ginny Ellwood; 22:39
2nd Place Survivor: Lori Dunlap; 22:45
3rd Place Survivor: Lisa Starcevic; 24:03
Male Survivor: John Pitzulo; 28:19
Master Survivor (age 40-59): Faith Vallese; 24:46
Senior …

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.–HanesBrands today announced an ongoing partnership with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to provide critical ear, nose and throat surgeries to hundreds of children each year in the Dominican Republic through volunteer medical missions.

Following the overwhelming success of the partnership’s initial mission, in which 50 children ages 2 to 17 received tonsillectomies or surgeries for ear, cleft palate, congenital neck lesion and other conditions earlier this year, …

SAN FRANCISCO, Today President Obama made history by declaring his support of same-sex marriage, becoming the first sitting president to take such a position, and moving the nation closer to creating the AIDS-free generation he so boldly envisions.

“The president’s actions are not only important to matters of justice and equality, they are also vitally important to our work in the fight against HIV/AIDS,” said Neil Giuliano, CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation. “When people feel affirmed, respected, and valued, they are …

HONG KONG, May 7 (Xinhua) — A carcass of a crested myna found on April 27 in Hong Kong was confirmed to be H5N1-positive after a series of laboratory tests, the city’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said here Monday.

The dead crested myna, which is a common resident bird in Hong Kong, was found and collected near Santa Monica Avenue, Royal Palms, Yuen Long.

The AFCD will continue to conduct inspections of …

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Xinhua) — Almost 42 percent of the U.S. population could be obese by 2030, according to a study released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) .

The findings suggest the U.S. healthcare system could be burdened with 32 million more obese people within two decades. Action is needed to keep rates from increasing further, said researchers from Duke University, RTI International …

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Xinhua) — U.S. researchers have discovered that a drug already prescribed to millions of people with diabetes could also have another important use: treating one of the world’s leading causes of blindness.

In laboratory rat and cell-culture experiments, the scientists found that metformin, which is commonly used to control blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes, also substantially reduced the effects of uveitis, an inflammation of the tissues just below the outer surface of …

BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) — China will train 8,000 doctors in rural areas to prevent and treat diabetes, covering 279 counties in nine provinces, the Chinese Diabetes Society (CDS) under the Chinese Medical Association said Friday.

The year-long program will allow doctors to receive both face-to-face and remote online training in the provinces of Jiangsu, Hebei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shandong and Henan, the CDS said.

A CDS survey …

WASHINGTON, April 26 (Xinhua) — The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved Votrient to treat patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma who have previously received chemotherapy.
Soft tissue sarcoma is a cancer that begins in the muscle, fat, fibrous tissue, and other tissues. Votrient is a pill that works by interfering with angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels needed for solid tumors to grow and survive.
A rare cancer with many …

KATHMANDU, April 6 (Xinhua) — World Health Day has been observed in Nepal on Friday with the slogan “Aging and Health: Good Health Adds Life to Years.”

A special program was organized on the occasion of the World Health Day in the capital Kathmandu. Addressing the ceremony, Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, Praveen Mishra, said that as the country is moving towards a demographic change, the new health policy is the need of the …

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2012.- The National Chicken Council today released the following statement in response to a New York Times opinion piece, “Arsenic in our chicken,” and refuted the findings of recent studies that claim to have found chemical and antimicrobial residues in chicken feather meal:

“As the study’s authors point out, this study looked only at feathers, not meat.  If consumers were to take away one message from the findings, …