New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

In her keynote speech at last year's annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe bar codes to check whether right-wing billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch were behind a...

May 14, 2013, 12:57
Xena the Warrior Puppy, rescued from abuse, helps 8-year-old boy with autism Xena the Warrior Puppy, rescued from abuse, helps 8-year-old boy with autism

For most of Jonny Hickey’s eight years of life, solitude has suited him just fine.He adores his mom and dad, of course, and he loves his older brother. He also views some special ed teachers as rare, trusted allies. Still, none of those people could get many words out of him.It’s not that Jonny can’t talk. He knows how to speak, and he can read with proficiency. But autism left him closed...

April 28, 2013, 17:17
‘I never had a second thought’: Collegeathlete cuts career short to save stranger’s life ‘I never had a second thought’: Collegeathlete cuts career short to save stranger’s life

Cameron Lyle has asked a lot of his body over the years, but he never expected it to save the life of a stranger.A shot put star on the University of New Hampshire track and field team, Lyle was at the pinnacle of his collegiate athletic career when he had to make a profound decision.A man with blood cancer was desperate for healthy bone marrow and Lyle was the only match on a national registry...

April 30, 2013, 13:37
Glen Campbell’s daughter on the hardships of Alzheimer’s

April 25, 2013, 21:51
Tiny superheroes fight big illnesses in little capes

Many people follow blogs for advice, laughter and  inspiration. Sometimes the stories we read are so powerful they inspire us to act. In the case of Robyn Rosenberger, those powerful stories made her want to sew.The Seattle mom was making superhero capes for her 1-year-old son when she came across a blog about a baby girl named Brenna. Brenna was born with a rare and severe skin disease. She...

April 17, 2013, 20:19
Mom survey says: Three is the most stressful number of kids Mom survey says: Three is the most stressful number of kids

When it comes to kids, three is the magic number... for stress.Mothers of three children stress more than moms of one or two, while mothers of four or more children actually report lower stress levels, according to an exclusive TODAYMoms.com survey of more than 7,000 U.S. mothers released Monday. Call it the Duggar effect: Once you get a certain critical mass of kids, life seems to get a bit...

May 6, 2013, 9:39
FDA approves Plan B One-Step for girls 15 and older without prescription FDA approves Plan B One-Step for girls 15 and older without prescription

U.S. regulators on Tuesday lowered the age limit for Plan B One-Step emergency contraception, approving it for sale to girls as young as 15 and agreeing it will be available without a prescription and on store shelves instead of behind pharmacy counters, Food and Drug Administration officials announced. The move, which grants an amended application by drugmaker Teva Women's Health Inc., is a...

April 30, 2013, 23:32
Doctors: All Boston bomb patients likely to live

All of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close...

April 22, 2013, 18:56
'A different reality': Mother-daughter bombing victims look ahead 'A different reality': Mother-daughter bombing victims look ahead

A mother who lost her legs and a daughter who was critically injured in the April 15 Boston marathon attack had only been at the race’s finish line for 10 minutes -- 20 minutes, tops -- when the bombs went off.  For Celeste Corcoran, 47, and her daughter, Sydney, 18, those brief moments devastated their lives, changing them forever. But the women tell Natalie Morales of TODAY and NBC’s Rock...

April 26, 2013, 16:56
It's true: Men can't read women's emotions, study confirms

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience It's a cliché that men just don't understand women. Now, new research suggests men really do struggle to read women's emotions — at least from their eyes. The research, published Wednesday (April 10) in the journal  PLOS ONE, showed that men had twice as much trouble deciphering women's emotions from images of their eyes compared with those of men. Parts of the...

April 14, 2013, 16:11
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