PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Changing Diabetes(R) Bus and Village will host visitors today at New York City's Union Square Park, as its tour around the globe concludes on the eve of the first United Nations-sanctioned World Diabetes Day. Novo Nordisk, the sponsor of the tour, invites visitors to Union Square Park to participate in the global drive to raise awareness about diabetes prevention and control, and encourage New Yorkers to change the future of diabetes today. Admission to the Novo Nordisk Changing Diabetes(R) Bus event is free and open to the public today from 11am to 7pm in Union Square's North Plaza.

Basketball Hall of Famer and diabetes advocate, Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks, is an ambassador for the campaign. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2000, 'Nique has been sharing his personal story in order to motivate and educate the public about this disease.

House Subcommittee Holds Hearing To Review Efforts To Expand SCHIP In ...

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on Tuesday held a hearing to review efforts in 2007 to pass legislation to reauthorize and expand SCHIP, CQ Today reports.

During the hearing, witnesses said that the number of uninsured children will increase because of the current economic recession and the inability of Congress to expand public health insurance programs or prevent changes to programs by President Bush. Cindy Mann, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, said that the number of uninsured children increases by about 2,000 daily and that the "weakening economy will inevitably push these numbers upward unless action is taken by Congress to put the nation back on track."

In addition, Dennis Smith, Medicaid director at CMS, during the hearing defended an Aug.

Sex lessons must start at age five

This article, and many of the posters, make the simplistic and incorrect link between formal school based sex education and early pregnancies. Research suggests that the influence of specialized sex education programs are probably less important than the influences of family, local culture and mass media. The key is the cultural influence around growing children, with a media and culture that continually glamourizes sexual behaviour and a large proportion of parents who behave like animals on heat, is it surprising that kids grow up having sex before they are ready for the consequences. And if you think that Mrs MacTavish at the local Primary School talking about relationships and sex is going to have a big effect against these wicked influences you are kidding yourselves. .

E-mail gaffe leads to billion-dollar news leak

A simple e-mail slip-up, the kind any one of us could make at any time: A Philadelphia lawyer addresses his electronic missive to an Alex Berenson instead of Bradford Berenson.

With the negotiations over alleged marketing improprieties reaching a mind-boggling sum of $1 billion, Eli Lilly had every reason to want to keep the talks under wraps.

Lipstick Jungle 's Women Take Manhattan!

Meet the sassy triple threats who put the sex back into the city in Candace Bushnell's new Lipstick Jungle (premieres tonight at 10 pm/ET on NBC).

LINDSAY PRICE
Plays: Designer Victory Ford, a onetime 7th Avenue golden girl, who's now out of fashion.
Strength: "Victory doesn't do anything halfway," Price says.
Weakness: "She's starting to wonder if her success was a fluke."
Signature Line: "All I own is a busted career and 200 pairs of shoes."
Romance: Andrew McCarthy plays a blue-eyed billionaire who could rescue Victory and her company.
Nemesis: She has several, including an ex-assistant who steals her work.
Fashion Sense: Romantic and whimsical (think Peter Som).

BROOKE SHEILDS
Plays: Wendy Healy, president of Parador Pictures and overscheduled mom.

Society depends on more for less

To address the climate challenge we need to reduce the carbon content of our energy by at least half.

But at the same time we must learn to generate a unit of GDP for about half the energy which we use at present.

Energy efficiency and carbon content of energy are equally important, but they require different approaches to achieve them.

I am a great believer in both the power of consumer choice and the market. As we come to understand the consequences, we do tend to make greener choices.

But most of us will only make those choices if they deliver the convenience and utility to which we are used or aspire; and if they do not cost more (or we can afford the luxury of choice).

Consumer opinion and choice is important, but it will not do the trick on its own.