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The national office of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) reported today that it has received at least 75 inquiries about starting new chapters in communities across the country since Election Day 2008. The significant spike in requests about founding chapters follows passage of anti-equality ballot initiatives in California, Arkansas, Florida and the premiere of the films Milk and Prayers for Bobby, which portrayed the true story of Mary Griffith, a PFLAG mother's journey from rejecting her gay son to becoming an advocate for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The organization, which already boasts nearly 500 chapters and affiliates across the country, is working with local allies who have expressed interest in bringing PFLAG to their communities. 'If there is a silver lining to the set-back our families experienced on Election Day, it is that our allies in communities across the country have started to mobilize at the local level a

Children of older fathers perform less well in a range of brainpower tests during infancy and early childhood, a study found. In contrast, children with older mothers did well on the tests, which ass...

The Werribee Terrace Aged Care facility has been forced to appoint a nursing adviser and train staff after the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency found it failed to properly look after its r...

0 posts Midlife obesity may be associated with risk for dementia, but after age 65, the relationship between body mass index and dementia appears to reverse so that underweight individuals are at high...

New research supports a radical shift in child-welfare policy for the thousands of teens who 'age out' of foster care at age 18, only to face high rates of homelessness, unemployment and incarceration.

? We know that lifespan can be extended in animals by restricting calories such as sugar intake. Now, according to a study published in the journal

The fact that an animal's lifetime is prolonged by decreasing its sugar ingestion is commonly recognized. In a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, scientists from the Université de Montréal, reveal that sugar in itself is not the key element but the cells' capacity to detect its presence is. The intricate works of the process of aging are still not clearly defined. The link between aging and calorie consumption is certainly obvious to researchers.

When a word becomes so popular you begin hearing it everywhere, in all sorts of marginally related or even unrelated contexts, it means one of two things. Either the word has devolved into a meaningless cliché, or it has real conceptual heft. “Green” (or, even worse, “going green”) falls squarely into the first category. But “sustainable,” which at first conjures up a similarly vague sense of environmental virtue, actually belongs in the second. True, you hear it applied to everything from cars to agriculture to economics. But that’s because the concept of sustainability is at its heart so simple that it legitimately applies to all these areas and more.Despite its simplicity, however, sustainability is a concept people have a hard time wrapping their minds around. To help, Scientific American Earth 3.0 has consulted with several experts on the topic to find out what kinds of misconceptions they most often encounter. The result is this ta

Washington, Mar 9 : A new study from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found that older air traffic controllers perform as well as their young counterparts on complex, job-related tasks.

A survey of 220 directors at U.S. companies with $1 billion or more in revenue finds that despite the current economic environment, corporate boards of directors have taken on a growing role in overseeing the risks and opportunities associated with corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S) and climate change.The survey was commissioned by Deloitte, a worldwide provider of audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services, and conducted via email in August 2008 by Corporate Board Member magazine.