Bringing Obama care To Your Favorite TV Show. Foundation spending $500K to educate TV writers on new healthcare law.

A private California foundation has raised half-a-million dollars to promote the new health care reform law on TV shows by educating script writers about it.

The Ca...

Rotary member and polio survivor Ramesh Ferris shares how ending polio will impact global health

“As a polio survivor, I’ve made it my mission to help bring life-saving vaccines to all children. I was born in India, where I contracted polio as a six-month-o...

Syrian, Cambodian, Afghan Women Win Media Awards

The director of an Afghanistan news organization, a Syrian photojournalist and a Cambodian investigative reporter each received Courage in Journalism awards from a women&rs...

Strengthening African health systems

A group of current and former African finance ministers discussed ways to improve the management of public health systems at an early October roundtable convened by Harvard...

Obama Says Health Law Critics ‘Grossly Misleading’

President Barack Obama defended his health-care law, saying the flawed online insurance exchange will get fixed and accusing critics of “grossly misleading” the...

UN teams with ‘Revolution’ TV show to highlight real challenges of a world without power

The fictional concept at the heart of the television series ‘Revolution’ – which picks up 15 years after the start of a worldwide blackout – is the ...

James Bond producers to receive PGA Award

The producers of the James Bond films are to receive the David O Selznick Achievement Award from the Producers Guild of America (PGA).

Michael G Wilson and Barbara ...

Justice must be integral to future sustainable development agenda – UN expert

28 October 2013 – Justice, security and development cannot be promoted one at the expense of the other, either through reductionism or strict sequencing, a United Nat...

Sex and Equality: How women fare around the world

For eight years the World Economic Forum has released a ranking of how women are narrowing the gap compared to men in the terms of political participation, economic opportu...