Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head when she was 14 by the Taliban for advocating for education rights for girls, has won the top EU prize for human rights, along with$67,000. Now 16 and fully recovered after hospitalization in the UK, Malala is also favored to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
The first Disability Pride parade gets underway on Sunday, July 12 at noon, in New York City. People of all abilities are welcome.
Female inmates in New Zealand have been learning how to make the perfect coffee behind bars during barista training from coffee company Peoples Coffee.
151 years ago marks the only time a U.S. president ever came under enemy fire. It was in Washington, DC, 100 days before Abraham Lincoln would be reelected.
A World War II veteran is running across America to help send the ship he served on back to Normandy for 75th anniversary of D-Day.
High school graduates in Oregon will receive two years of free community college thanks to a new law giving each student a minimum $1,000 grant.
89-year-old Don Neilan has returned almost two dozen class rings he's found with his metal detector on the beach near his home.
The three-time World Cup-winning U.S. Women's Soccer Team is being honored like no other women's team in any sport in the 129 years of NYC parades.
Two new studies show promise for gene therapy to prevent deafness in infants and restore hearing in older adults.
There's nothing like a visit from Johnny Depp dressed as Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow to warm the hearts of children at an Australian children's hospital.
Instead of cake and gifts for her 48th birthday this year, this inspiring woman is asking for acts of kindness... think you can rise to the challenge?
After decades of disappointment, researchers think they're finally on track to unleash the first practical vaccine against malaria, one of mankind's ancient scourges. In the world's first large field trial of an experimental malaria vaccine, 55 percent of the children had less risk of getting the disease over a year than those who didn't get the vaccine.
One of Britain's most feared diseases - which kills or maims hundreds of children every year - could be virtually eliminated after the first-ever meningitis B vaccine was approved by European regulators. The new vaccine, called Bexsero, is the most significant breakthrough against meningitis in three decades
Provita Pharmaceutical is working on a project (with funding from the Gates Foundation) to use mosquitoes to help carry vaccines against the West Nile Virus. And, everyone on the 15-plus person Provita team, from research and development workers to finance officers, is under the age of 18 and still in high school.Read More
A new malaria vaccine has become the first in tests to be 100% effective in providing protection against the deadly disease. The promising results provide hope for a future cure.
An announcement this week confirmed China as a world leader in creating life-saving, inexpensive vaccines for the world. A Chinese manufacturer earned the World Health Organization's stamp of approval for its quality production of the first practical vaccine for use in the developing world against Japanese encephalitis, a disease spread by mosquitoes that kills15,000 children every year and leaves thousands more with brain damage and paralysis.
Diagnosed with a likely-fatal cancer, a woman near death was abruptly cured by an injection of measles vaccine so potent that it equaled ten million regular doses.
Queensland researchers say they have made a breakthrough in the fight to protect the shrinking koala population against chlamydia.
Today is World AIDS Day, and I just found this good news item about the US dropping its travel ban on people with HIV coming into the United States. The full removal of the ban takes effect on January 4, 2010.
In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device can make an immediate diagnosis for HIV and syphilis in remote villages leading to drastically improved treatment.