reports that Phillip Terrence Ragon will announce the gift to Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday.
The hospital will get $10 million a year for the next decade to bring together doctors, engineers and biologists from Massachusetts General as well as other research institutions, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The 59-year-old Ragon is the founder and sole owner of InterSystems Corp., a company Read the rest of this entry »

pledged on Thursday to work with lawmakers of both parties in a grass roots, ideology-free campaign to revamp the nation’s struggling health care system.
“We will be guided by evidence and effectiveness, not by ideology,” Mr. Daschle told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions after saying that he wanted “to work with each of you” on ways to improve health care for all Americans.
“When Read the rest of this entry »

Japan emperor turns 75, pledges to care for family
TOKYO (AFP) — Japanese Emperor Akihito turned 75 on Tuesday, pledging to work for the betterment of the imperial family as his worries about the state of the world’s oldest monarchy inflict a toll on his own health.
Akihito, who next year marks 20 years on the Chrysanthemum Throne, cancelled a customary annual news conference and part of the ceremonies for his birthday.
The son of wartime Read the rest of this entry »

Virginity pledges alone may not decrease teenagers’ sexual behavior. Instead, they may decrease their sex safe practices, according to the January issue of
.
Population and family health researcher Janet Elise Rosenbaum, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that pledges were 10 percent less likely than non-pledgers to use a condom or any form of birth control.
“In Chicago there are real questions about what teens Read the rest of this entry »

A plan to give every Oregonian access to affordable health
care within five years was presented Tuesday to Gov. Ted
Kulongoski and legislative leaders.
The governor said he has put $5 million in his 2009-2011
budget to carry out the plan, which was designed by the
seven-member Oregon Health Fund Board created by the
Legislature.
His top priority, he said, is to carry out an early phase of
the plan that calls for expanding Oregon’s existing
health Read the rest of this entry »

before that as those who don’t take virginity pledges, according to a new study published in the January issue of
.
Previous research found that those who take virginity pledges are more likely to wait to have sex than those who don’t take such pledges. But this study used a different statistical method from earlier studies, which allowed researchers to compare pledge takers with non-pledge takers who were likely to delay having sex; it also didn’t Read the rest of this entry »

As many as one in eight teens in the United States may take a virginity pledge at some point, vowing to wait until they’re married before having sex. But do such pledges work? Are pledge takers more likely than other teens to delay sexual activity?
A new study suggests that the answer is no. While teens who take virginity pledges do delay sexual activity until an average age of 21 (compared to about age 17 for the average American teen), the reason Read the rest of this entry »

has pledged $275,000 to
in Gloversville.
The pledge is part of the hospital’s Campaign for Excellence, which is described as a multi-million-dollar campaign to support improvements to the hospital. The foundation has donated $859,000 to the hospital since 1994.
“The unwavering support we receive from The Johnstown Hospital Foundation is truly remarkable,” said Laurence Kelly, president and CEO of the hospital. “The contributions Read the rest of this entry »

Media Misinterpreted Study On Teen Virginity Pledges, WSJ Opinion Piece Says
of a Johns Hopkins University study on the sexual behavior of teenagers who take virginity pledges was followed by “a chain reaction” in the media, whose interpretation of the
“just isn’t true,”
columnist William McGurn writes in a opinion piece. McGurn writes, “Typical was the lead for the CBS News story: ‘Teenagers who take virginity pledges are no less sexually active Read the rest of this entry »

As many as one in eight teens in the United States may take a virginity pledge at some point, vowing to wait until they’re married before having sex. But do such pledges work? Are pledge takers more likely than other teens to delay sexual activity?
A new study suggests that the answer is no. While teens who take virginity pledges do delay sexual activity until an average age of 21 (compared to about age 17 for the average American teen), the reason Read the rest of this entry »