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By Terry KaelberWednesday, August 21, is National Senior Citizens Day.Remember being a senior in high school or college?  Figuring out what to do with our lives – identifying what was next – wasn’t easy.  But there were resources available to help us understand and explore…

WASHINGTON -- With precious time remaining before the health care exchanges established by the president's health care law are up and running, the Obama administration is rolling out new initiatives to encourage enrollment.The latest of these is set to be unveiled on Monday, when the…

The Obama administration hopes to attract more than 2.5 million young, healthy people to enroll through the health insurance exchanges that open on Oct. 1. Photo courtesy of Flickr User will1ill/Alex Wong Getty Images Aside from House Republicans' 40th attempt last week to repeal or…

In keeping with Atlantic Founding Chairman Charles F. Feeney’s Giving While Living approach to philanthropy, Atlantic will conclude its grantmaking by 2016 with the objective of addressing big urgent problems-- with maximum impact – in a limited timeframe. This article looks at an example of…

Throughout the developed world people are living longer healthier lives and life expectancy is increasing at an extraordinarily fast pace. In Ireland alone the population of people aged 80 or more is expected to treble by 2050. In this broadcast, RTÉ Radio's Marian Finucane discusses ageing…

By Darren EvansOne project in Northern Ireland has been so successful at reconciling Catholic and Protestant schools that other troubled regions of the world are seeking to adopt its methods. Darren Evans reportsIn the seaside town of Ballycastle, on the craggy, windswept coast of County…

The National Rifle Association and President Obama responded to the Newtown, Conn., shootings by recommending that more police officers be placed in the nation’s schools. But a growing body of research suggests that, contrary to popular wisdom, a larger police presence in schools generally does…

On 30 October 2012 Wright Lassiter, III, CEO of Alameda County Medical Center presented at the American Public Health Association's 140th Annual meeting on his efforts to make health care more accessible and effective. Video courtesy of MEDDIC. MEDDIC and Latin American Medical School (ELAM) are…

'Zero-tolerance' policies don't have the desired effect, American Academy of Pediatrics saysBy Amy NortonHealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Suspending or expelling a child from school should be a rare last resort and not a routine punishment for bullying, drug use or other infractions,…

The Centre for Justice in collaboration with Amnesty International Bermuda, the Human Rights Commission,Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda, The Vision Ministry and Two Words and a Comma have produced a booklet calling on the new government to amend the Human Rights Act to include protection from…