Since the late 1980s, when Ralph Lauren was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor and his close friend died from breast cancer, the fashion mogul has been dedicated to the fight against the deadly disease. He announced plans to build a second world-class breast cancer research center recently in London.
In the late 1980s, fashion industry legend Ralph Lauren was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. Shortly after the removal of the tumor, his close friend Nina Hyde was diagnosed with breast cancer, a disease that later took her life.
In the quarter century since then, Ralph Lauren has been dedicated to the fight against the deadly disease.
Recognized for his early leadership in the fight, Lauren made a personal and corporate commitment to finding a cure.
Yesterday he announced, in a rare and personal video, a new partnership with The Royal Marsden, one of Princess Diana's favorite charities, the largest and most comprehensive cancer centre in Europe. The Ralph Lauren Corporation is to build them a state-of-the-art breast cancer research facility in Chelsea, London.
As a tribute to his friendship with Nina Hyde, The Washington Post's fashion editor for 18 years, Ralph Lauren co-founded the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at Georgetown University in 1989.
"Breast Cancer is not just a women's issue," says Lauren. "It affects all of us – the husbands, fathers, brothers, children and friends of the women dealing with this dreaded disease."
His Pink Pony campaign helped mobilize the fashion industry to take a stand against breast cancer. As part of the campaign in 2001, Lauren founded the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem, New York to provide healthcare to the medically under-served African-American population, which is at a much greater risk of dying of cancer.
This evening, May 13th, Lauren will attend a gala dinner at Windsor Castle, hosted by His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, to celebrate the work of The Royal Marsden.
It's not just an "old adage" that tells us laughter is the best medicine these days. Scientists, doctors, mental health professionals, and patients themselves call humor a remedy for any ailment -- at least temporarily. In the book, 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know, the #1 statement in a recent survey of more than 600 survivors is, "I need to laugh – or just forget about cancer for a while." Now there is a resource and you can contribute to the funny file.
When many states have cut their wellness and education programs for inmates, citing cost and political pressure, some wardens looking for a low-cost, low-risk way for inmates to reflect on their crimes, improve their fitness and cope with the stress of overcrowded prison life are turning toward yoga.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has scheduled another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day to take place at thousands of sites around the U.S. today. During the third Drug Take-Back Day in 2011, Americans turned in more than 188.5 tons of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal. The 5,327 drop off locations were available in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
A 1986 study from which researchers analyzed the autobiographical essays of 678 nuns, written in their early 20s, who had entered an American convent in the 1930s, found that those in the top 25 percent on the optimism scale lived on average up to 10 years longer. The implications of this astonishing finding in our increasingly health-conscious age should be enormous.
To help combat the mild depression commuters may experience when the sun only rises for five hours per day in one northern Swedish town, a local energy company has installed ultra-violet lamps at about 30 bus stops.
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