Health and Wellness
Providing health care, education and resources around the world, wherever they are needed most.
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11-17-14
Global Pro Bono is Moving the Needle on Maternal Health | Wednesday, November 19 at 1:00 PM EST | Upcoming #3BLchat
Mark Your Calendars!
Date: Wednesday, November 19"¨
Time: 1:00 pm, ET
According to many leading organizations in global health, including the Public Health Institute, 2014 presented 3 major megatrends in h...
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11-12-14
Combatting Health Risks and Promoting Better Hand Washing and Hygiene
Saraya Co. Ltd, a Japanese manufacturer of hygiene and sanitation products, joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with an initiative to decrease healthcare associated infections in Uganda.
Saraya brings alcohol-based hand rub products to East Africa in an effort to reduce the spread of...
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11-12-14
Better Health East Bay and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Invest $2 Million to Strengthen Health Care Safety Net for Underserved
Working collaboratively with Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Partners, Better Health East Bay and Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center have announced a combined $2.1 million investment to strengthen a system of care that supports the health needs of underser...
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10-29-14
DNV GL Addresses Urgent Hospital Infection Concerns With New Managing Infection Risk Certification Program
Today DNV GL announced a new certification program aimed at transforming hospitals’ approach to managing infection risk. DNV GL certified Sentara Leigh and Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospitals in Virginia as the first two Centers of Excellence for its Managing Infection Risk (MIR) ...
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10-24-14
CVS Health and Direct Relief Partner to Donate $1 Million in Flu Shot Vouchers to Uninsured Patients of Community Health Clinics
CVS Health and Direct Relief announced today that they have partnered to provide $1 million in flu shot vouchers to community health clinic patients in underserved communities who lack health insurance. Nearly 100 participating clinics will identify uninsured individuals from their exi...
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10-10-14
EmblemHealth Supports Medically Underserved Young Adults Through Partnership with Children’s Health Fund
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For Tuesday, October 14 at 12:00 pm
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
A special event will be held to celebrate EmblemHealth’s support of Children’s Health Fund’s mobile medical program. Through CBS EcoMedia’s WellnessAd program, EmblemHealth wi...
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09-30-14
Improved Data on Community Health Workers Critical to Achieving Global Health Goals
A new report finds that developing nations’ ability to deal with pressing health challenges like HIV/AIDS and ensuring maternal and newborn survival will be strengthened by creating a common definition for community health workers, as well as a core set of skills and competencies that would help ...
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09-25-14
Unilever and USAID Call for a World-Wide Hygiene Intervention for Newborns
To coincide with the 69th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Unilever’s health soap brand Lifebuoy hosted a roundtable discussion that united the private and public sector with one clear goal: to reach all mothers worldwide with life-saving hygiene messages that help t...
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09-19-14
Novo Nordisk advocates for health on the post-2015 development agenda
Eight million people below the age of 60 die each year in low- and middle- income countries from preventable causes, including unhealthy diets, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity leading to non-communicable diseases (NCDs).[1]
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09-04-14
CSX and The Conservation Fund Improve Access to Healthy Food for Youth in West Virginia
In West Virginia, one in five children does not have reliable access to sufficient food – especially healthy food – due to limited financial resources, lack of transportation and other factors. But CSX and
