The goal is to collect pennies and ponytails for Locks of Love. 2009 PENNY DRIVE April 13-May 13 at participating restaurants and PONYTAIL DRIVE May 12 & 13 at participating salons. Please visit the website for locations! Also a cause on Facebook.

Please spread the word about extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. It may become the next pandemic!

Cereals are one of the most popular forms of breakfast in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. But a new study suggests that some cereals might not be just as "inoffensive" as they may seem.

Affordable, quality health care and long-term financial security are two issues that Americans care deeply about in the 2008 Presidential election. Divided We Fail has produced this booklet.

MINNEAPOLIS (Sept. 14) - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs -- like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse -- are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.

This is a gadget that can save lives! One LifeStraw Family portable water purifier can make potable drinking water for a family of 5 for a year, and only costs $15 US or 3.50 Euro.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill that bans lead from children's toys and other products. The measure also bans, either permanently or pending further study, children's goods that contain chemicals called phthalates...

View an interactive Google map that summarizes reported and actual mercury emissions from more than a third of all the U.S. cement kilns.

Triclosan persists in the environment, breaks down into substances highly toxic to wildlife, pollutes the human body, and poses health risks that are barely studied and poorly understood.

the consistency of the results observed in the present study... indicate that many ASD patients have urinaryporphyrin profiles consistent with significantly increased body burdens of mercury.