Nancy Brinker, the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, began the organization after making a promise to her dying sister.
Reversal came amid intense backlash
The American Heart Association is celebrating National Wear Red Day on Feb. 3 as a way to raise awareness of the health complications that heart disease can bring women.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure apologized on Friday for suspending its breast screening grant program with Planned Parenthood this week and announced it would revise a company policy that led to the decision, following an enormous public outcry and sharp criticism.
Discount Gun Sales is proud to team up with the Susan B. Koman Foundation to offer the Walther P-22 Hope Edition in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Tracy Morgan may be attracting more attention for his behavior lately than his comedy. In addition to accusations of neglecting his mother, Morgan made a memorable appearance on the Jimmy Fallon Show this week. I grew up with Tom Brady, Morgan said on the talk show last night in Indiana. We was both in special-ed school together. Tom Brady used to wear a crash helmet on the little bus, spit on the window.
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is to axe a further 7,300 jobs, it emerged Friday.The cuts, equivalent to 12 percent of the workforce, are expected to deliver $1.6 billion in annual benefits by the end of 2014, but will cost $2.1 billion to implement.
Outrage over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood has spurred talk about its abortion services--a politically controversial part of its program that only accounts for 3 percent of its patient care.
Despite earlier concerns, dieters who repeatedly lose weight and then gain it back aren't at higher risk of early death than people who don't yo-yo diet, according to a new report.
A Maine seafarer said he had found the wreck of a World War II merchant ship off the Massachusetts coast, sunk while carrying a cargo of the precious metal platinum valued today at nearly $3 billion, an unprecedented find that has raised some doubts.
In an attempt to blunt the criticism against its decision to cut funding for the Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Cure denied the influence of political views in its decision.
That Komen receives millions of dollars in funding from various corporate sponsors is no secret, but the controversy lies within the influence these companies might be having on some of the organization's stances. In particular, Komen has consistently denied any possible link between breast cancer and the chemical compound bisphenol A (BPA), which can be found in any number of consumer products sold by its sponsors-Coca-Cola, General Mills, and 3M being among them.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure has revoked Planned Parenthood's funding because the group is under federal investigation, but it has not revoked Penn State University's funding, even though Penn State is under federal investigation as well.
Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged to give $250,000 to Planned Parenthood to offset the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision to cut funds to the health center for breast cancer screenings, a decision that some say was based on a rule put in place for the express purpose of catering to pro-life opposition to the sexual and reproductive health organization.
Sources with direct knowledge of the issue told The Atlantic the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation adopted new policies specifically to suspend its Planned Parenthood partnership.
Nearly two dozen U.S. senators have signed a letter to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, urging it to reinstate funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening exams for low-income women, The Washington Post is reporting.
Music has been referred to as a universal language, but it might also be known as a universal medicine. It did so for lead guitarist Tony Iommi on the fateful day of Jan. 9, when he told the world he had just been diagnosed with an early stage of lymphoma, which has a 30 percent survival rate after 5 years for Iommi's age bracket. But for Iommi, now 63, support from his fans and the drive to keep writing music help him to persevere.
Founder and CEO Nancy Brinker said Komen's decision to end its partnership with Planned Parenthood has been mischaracterized and is not politically motivated.
Wislawa Szymborska, winter of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died of lung cancer on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. She was 88.
Susan G Komen for the Cure, the largest and best-funded breast cancer organization in the United States, withdrew its funding from Planned Parenthood on Tuesday, but the organization recouped much of its lost money through donations.
The risk to public health from a severe nuclear power plant accident in the United States is very small because reactor operators should have time to prevent core damage and reduce the release of radioactive materials, U.S. nuclear regulators said in a study on Wednesday.
Radioactive seeds that are sometimes used to treat early prostate cancer may do widespread damage to the DNA in a man's sperm, a small study finds.
