Health
April 19, 2016 at 9:34 am
In an effort to find and fund a cure for cancer, billionaire Sean Parker, founder of Napster and founding president of Facebook, announced a $250 million initiative, called the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, that will bring together 300 leading scientists from 40 labs and six cancer centers...
April 15, 2016 at 9:48 am
A Michigan couple on Wednesday announced a $1 million donation to Livestrong, the Austin-based cancer nonprofit. It is the biggest single donation the group has received since 2010. Jeri and Jeff Mulder, longtime Livestrong supporters, will pay out a $1 million gift to the group over the course of five years from their nonprofit the…
April 1, 2016 at 9:00 am
In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the leader of various sham cancer nonprofits has agreed to shut down his organizations in what the agency has called the largest joint enforcement action against charity fraud...
February 17, 2016 at 10:10 am
Cancer Fund of America, one of four cancer charities the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) named in a civil complaint last May, has agreed to shut down. The Tennessee-based charity allegedly was part of a scam that bilked donors out of more than $187 million. Named the second-worst charity in America by The Tampa Bay Times, it is the last of the four charities named in the FTC complaint to cease operations...
February 2, 2016 at 11:28 am
International donors have failed to deliver $1.9 billion in promised funds to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people and decimated already weak health care systems, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam said Sunday. The remaining $3.9 billion pledged has been difficult to track because of "scant information" and…
January 27, 2016 at 9:54 am
A grand jury in Houston that was investigating accusations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood instead has indicted two abortion opponents who made undercover videos of the organization. Prosecutors in Harris County said one of the leaders of the Center for Medical Progress—an anti-abortion group that made secretly recorded videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials…
January 5, 2016 at 10:04 am
New Jersey’s nonprofit hospitals, which have long enjoyed a tax exemption, would have to make payments to their host communities to cover the cost of municipal services under a bipartisan measure making its way through the state legislature. Lawmakers are responding to a June court ruling which found that the 40-acre Morristown Medical Center owed…
December 4, 2015 at 10:44 am
The Senate voted Thursday to repeal key provisions of Obamacare and strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood, approving legislation that is sure to be vetoed by President Barack Obama. Senators voted 52-47 to pass the bill. Two moderate Republicans—Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Kirk of Illinois—joined Democrats in opposing the bill. Sen. Bernie Sanders,…
December 1, 2015 at 9:56 am
The Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), a nonprofit organization funded by the Coca-Cola Co., said on its website late Monday that it will discontinue its operations. The announcement comes four months after it was revealed that the Atlanta, Georgia-based beverage maker was involved in the activities of the group. GEBN, which was formed with an…
November 30, 2015 at 11:32 am
Even as the authorities say they remain uncertain what precisely led a gunman to attack a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs on Friday, a comment attributed to the suspect by a senior law enforcement official—“no more baby parts”—fed directly into an already high-pitched controversy over Planned Parenthood and its practices. The phrase was an…
