California Universities Next on Budget Cut Hit List

After days of protests and the arrests of dozens of angry students, on Thursday the University of California Board of Regents voted to increase tuition fees by 32% next fall.

The university will cost about three times as much as it did a decade ago, making the UC schools among the nation’s higher-priced public universities.

Uproar Over New Guidelines for Mammograms

After being told the opposite for decades, this week women were told less mammograms are better and breast self exams are useless. But not everyone agrees and some breast cancer survivors are lashing out at the new recommendations.

The new guidelines come from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group of experts convened by the Department of Health and Human Services. The task force reviewed evidence it considers solid and found that:

Shelter Animals Go to Research

Lots of people think that shelter animals that aren’t adopted are euthanized or if they’re in a no-kill shelter, they remain their for their rest of their lives. News is this may not always be true.

Five U.S. states require shelters to send un-adopted animals to research facilities. So if those homeless kitties or doggies aren’t adopted in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Utah, they’re sent to research facilities where they’re often subjected to all sorts of tests. In Iowa and Ohio, un-adopted animals are shipped off only if a research facility makes a request.

Gender-test runner keeps gold

Remember the South African runner, Caster Semenya, whose muscular build fueled questions about her gender? Well, she’s being allowed to keep the gold medal she won in the women's 800-meters at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in August.

The eighteen-year-old has also been found innocent of any wrongdoing, but the widely anticipated results of gender tests conducted would not be made public.

Global Entrepeneurship Week: We got the inside scoop!

Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 16 to 20, is an initiative to inspire young people around the world to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity.

For one week, millions of young people around the world join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things.

DoSomething.org had the opportunity to interview, Thom Ruhe, Director or Entrepeneurship about the initiative.

Great American Smoke-out: Kick the butts!

Quitting smoking is no easy feat, but it can be done. And that’s what Great American Smoke-out is all about. The hope is to help smokers quit cigarettes for at least one day, in hopes they will quit forever.