WASHINGTON—In response to the just-released meat-heavy Senate Farm Bill, the Physicians Committee is proposing a bold plan for better health: Convert the Reflecting Pool into a vegetable garden. "The ...

LIMA, Peru—The Sixth Constitutional Court of Lima recently ordered the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, a large public research university in Peru’s capital city, to conduct a census of vegan ...

The Physicians Committee recently made recommendations to two National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory councils, advocating for stronger support for education and training in nonanimal methods.

BALTIMORE, Md.—As human-based technologies become more widely used in research and testing, a training initiative aims to prepare scientists for a rapidly changing research landscape. Last week’s ...

Lyn Grady is a Food For Life instructor with the Physicians Committee who is helping people understand food as medicine, one class at a time. In this episode of The Exam Room Podcast, Lyn joins Chuck ...

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Dr. Steven Lome is a cardiologist practicing at Rush-Copley in Aurora, IL at the time of his founding of PBNM, and focusing on preventing and reversing heart disease with plant-based nutrition and ...

UC-VEG is a community-based organization providing practical strategies to enhance personal health on all levels through its food as medicine and lifestyle medicine programs. Contributing towards a ...

Scholastica House Healing Center at Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery was started on Feb. 1 2025. It is a place for healing in mind, body and spirt. We have cooked and served plant-based meals for our ...

Consuming one or more eggs per day may increase the risk of diabetes by 60%, according to a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Researchers compared egg consumption with blood glucose ...

WASHINGTON—A new study, published by the North American Menopause Society in the journal Menopause, found that a diet intervention is about as effective (88%) as ...

Shifting diets from meat and other animal products to plant-based diets has a high potential for reducing carbon footprints and mitigating climate change, as well as improving human health, according ...