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Oct 05, 2021, 15:00 ET Celebrities Invest in Digital Male Fertility Leader, Legacy

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier digital fertility clinic for men, today announced the investment of celebrities including DJ Khaled, The Weeknd, Justin ...

Jun 20, 2021, 09:00 ET Legacy Launches First-of-its-Kind Partnership for Elite Military Special Operators

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier digital fertility clinic for men, today announced a new partnership with the Military Family Building Coalition (MFBC)...

Apr 28, 2021, 09:00 ET Carrot Fertility and Legacy Partner to Expand Access to Male Fertility Care

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier digital fertility clinic for men, today announced a new partnership with the leading global fertility benefits provider ...

Apr 14, 2021, 09:00 ET Legacy Raises $10M Series A to Make Male Fertility Services Accessible to All

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier digital fertility clinic for men, today announced $10M in Series A fundraising led by FirstMark Capital. Rick...

Mar 09, 2021, 09:00 ET Legacy Partners with The Operation Baby Foundation in Support of Military Family Infertility

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier digital fertility clinic for men, today announced a new partnership with The Operation Baby Foundation, a 501(c)(3)...

Mar 02, 2021, 09:00 ET Legacy Introduces Mail-In Sperm DNA Fragmentation Analysis to Address Male Fertility

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier digital fertility clinic for men, announced today the first and only consumer-friendly sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF)...

Oct 27, 2020, 09:00 ET The Honorable Dr. David J. Shulkin, 9th Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Joins Legacy as a Strategic Advisor

Legacy (YC S'19), the digital fertility clinic for men, announced today the appointment of David J. Shulkin, M.D. as a strategic advisor to its...

Aug 11, 2020, 09:00 ET Legacy Partners With Veterans Advantage to Extend Fertility Benefits to Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

Legacy (YC S'19), the premier fatherhood and male fertility company announced a new partnership with Veterans Advantage, PBC, to offer its at-home...

Jun 06, 2019, 09:00 ET Legacy Raises $1.5 Million in Funding Led by Bain Capital Ventures

Legacy, a male fertility startup based out of Harvard Innovation Labs, today announced $1.5 million in new funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. The...

Aug 27, 2015, 01:54 ET It's A Trap: Social Smoking Is Smoking [truth® Video]

Think smoking on Saturday isn't a problem? What about smoking only at parties? Or only during final exams? Think again. truth® warns 'IT'S A TRAP' –...

Aug 20, 2015, 12:02 ET truth® And Vans Launch #Vansxtruth Collaboration Apparel Line

What can people do instead of smoking cigarettes? Vans and truth have the answers, 100s of them – and they're featured in the 2015 Vans x truth...

Jul 09, 2015, 01:03 ET truth® Finds Progress In The Strangest Places: Tobacco Company's Smoking Ban

The award-winning truth campaign released a video highlighting a policy at the nation's No. 2 tobacco company banning smoking in its office buildings....

Jul 02, 2015, 12:12 ET truth® Receives Cannes Lions Award For Left Swipe Dat

The truth® campaign was recognized for excellence in Branded Content and Entertainment at the Cannes Lions 62nd International Festival of Creativity. ...

Jul 01, 2015, 09:00 ET truth® Celebrates Syracuse University Move To Tobacco-Free

Syracuse University officially became a tobacco-free campus today. The award-winning truth campaign is celebrating this victory in a new online video ...

May 08, 2015, 05:19 ET San Francisco Knocks Tobacco Out of the Ballpark

San Francisco has taken the lead in protecting baseball players and fans from the health risks of chewing tobacco. The first-of-its-kind ban on all...

Apr 29, 2015, 10:31 ET Significant Additions In Strategic Communications And Corporate Partnerships At Anti-Tobacco Public Health Foundation

Legacy announced two additions to its leadership team. Former RAND Corporation external relations chief Lindsey Kozberg, and former Walt Disney...

Apr 16, 2015, 02:18 ET Rapid Changes in Hookah Use Found in Legacy Study of 18 - 24 Year-Olds - Tracks With CDC Survey of Youth Use

A new Legacy study entitled "Correlates of Hookah Use and Predictors of Hookah Trial in U.S. Young Adults," found that in 2013, almost a quarter of...

Nov 13, 2014, 01:44 ET Teens Continue to Light Up Cigars, Hookah and Pipes

Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data from its annual National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) showing that...

Nov 10, 2014, 12:15 ET "Progress" is Made from Coast to Coast as Millennials Warn Big Tobacco They'll Finish It

In response to remarkable progress being made in the fight to end the tobacco epidemic, the nation's largest youth smoking prevention campaign,...

Oct 06, 2014, 11:17 ET Legacy Empowers Community Colleges to Take a Breath of Fresh Air

Today Legacy – the national public health organization that funds the bold truth® youth smoking prevention campaign – announced it will support...

Sep 04, 2014, 01:10 ET The Vans x truth® Collection: Lace Up. Stand For Something

Teens across the country can now engage with the nation's largest smoking prevention campaign through fashion. Vans®, the original action sports...

Sep 03, 2014, 10:52 ET Tobacco Sales Become a Thing of the Past at CVS Health Nationwide

Earlier this year, CVS Caremark – one of the largest pharmacy retailers in the U.S. – announced it would no longer sell tobacco in any of its stores...

Aug 25, 2014, 03:40 ET The End Of Tobacco?

On Sunday, August 24, truth®, the nation's largest and longest running youth smoking prevention campaign, premiered the latest advertisements in its...

Jun 24, 2014, 10:00 ET ¡Atención! Para quienes buscan emociones, olas, música y conocimientos, comienza la gira anual del verano 2014 de la campaña juvenil de prevención del tabaquismo truth®

Los amantes de la música, los surfistas, las personas que buscan emociones y miles de jóvenes de todo el país experimentarán la diversión y los...

Jun 12, 2014, 01:34 ET Legacy Statement: High School Boys Now Smoke Cigarettes And Cigars At Similar Rates

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released the results of its 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) showing cigar usage...