More patients choosing hospice care

When Charlie Grantland developed dementia years ago, he was lucky; he had his wife to care for him. But when his wife of 68 years died earlier this year, Grantland needed assistance, and he didn't want to be a bother to his family.

Penn Receives NIH Grant for Personalized Smoking Cessation Research

A major new personalized medicine clinical trial, led by addiction researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, will study how a smokers' genetic make-up influences their quitting success.

Penn Medicine News: Penn Researchers Receive $12 Million NIH Grant to Develop Personalized Approach to Smoking Cessation

A team of researchers led by Caryn Lerman, PhD , professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Annenberg Public Policy Center, has received a $12 million five-year grant to study the pharmacogenetics of nicotine addiction treatment.

Newsline: Brethren Disaster Ministries marks 5th anniversary of Katrina (CoBNews Newsline: Bre)

rebuilding homes destroyed by Katrina.

Recession Makes Americans Kill Pets, Quit Having Kids

Not that you’d notice from the 40 million unemployed “workers” in this country, or the way all the houses in your neighborhood are being abandoned by night, or the miles of empty strip malls on the edge of every doomed American town, but experts in New York and Washington (the only two thriving cities in [...] United States - Birth rate - Bristol Palin - New York - National Center for Health ...