Health

It takes a car traveling 60 miles per hour for 43 hours and 40 minutes to go the distance of 100 marathons. That’s 2,621.88 miles. KP Kelly is running that distance in 100 days—one marathon a day—for charity. “I’m not a man of a lot of talent,” Kelly said. “But I can run really far…

Experts say not to fret. Run/walk/ride events aren’t going away. They’re just evolving. And there are more of them, with newer events—built on refined P2P concepts and years of research and data—popping up often. Two events for the Children’s Cancer Research Fund illustrate this phenomenon. The organization hosts both a walk event and a ride event. One is the Time to Fly walk, an annual run/walk in Minneapolis founded 14 years ago. The other event is the Great Cycle Challenge, a virtual, month-long biking event that took place for the second time this past June.

When sedentary kids strap on this Fitbit-like wearable, they might start exercising—at least temporarily. But they'll work out harder and longer if they know that their activity is also helping someone else. The Kid Power band, developed by UNICEF, lets kids use exercise to "unlock" a donation of a food packet to a child in…

With new leadership in Washington, D.C., the future of health care is up in the air, and that spells uncertainty for consumers and clinics like Volunteers In Medicine. "It is extremely unnerving, it's so concerning to me," says Ashley Evans of Volunteers In Medicine. "I've seen so many proposed plans." Says Will Wallace, "As far…

MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston's second-largest employer, is eliminating about 1,000 jobs as the elite medical institution continues to wrestle with losses that exceeded $100 million last quarter. The center's leaders announced Thursday that 800 to 900 employees will be laid off and another 100 to 200 jobs will be reduced through retirement and attrition.…

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Republicans would slash federal dollars for Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP effort to repeal the health care law. Ryan spoke a day after a special House panel issued a report criticizing the organization, which provides birth control, abortions and various women's health services, for its practices…

The NFL will discontinue its Breast Cancer Awareness initiative after next season, reports TheMMQB.com's Jenny Vrentas. For the last eight years, players wore pink during the month of October. Instead, the league will allow teams to choose their own causes to support in a campaign that will be called, "A Crucial Catch." More from Vrentas:…

Planned Parenthood is reporting a spike in donations and demand for long-acting contraceptives since Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, while abortion foes hope to gain momentum in their quest to cut public funding to the women’s health organization. Officials with Planned Parenthood said its patrons are worried about the impact of a Trump presidency…

Sarah Holway awoke one morning to a surprise: The art teacher’s Washington, D.C. school had been selected to help first lady ­Michelle Obama break ground later that day on a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. Holway was running Bancroft Elementary’s school garden, and she spent much of her time convincing…

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is drawing ire from women's groups for holding an annual fundraiser at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. The Komen Foundation is known as the largest breast cancer organization in the country. Its decision to keep next year's event at a club owned by the presidential candidate who has…