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03-23-14
Marines and Veterans Ride Waves to Reconditioning with their families at Del Mar Beach
Injured Marines, veterans and their families took to the waves at Del Mar Beach at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base this morning as part of a special reconditioning program to help them heal from their wounds.
The Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation’s Ocean Therapy program combines occupation...
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03-21-14
Seventh Generation's Campaign for a Toxin Free Generation Works to Reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act
(Marketwired) - Today, Seventh Generation, the nation's leading brand of non-toxic and renewable bio-based household, baby and person...
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03-20-14
UnitedHealthcare and CBS EcoMedia Renovate Volunteers of America Southwest’s Hawley Veterans Services Center
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02-24-14
Breast Cancer Prevention Movement in Massachusetts Counters National Pink Ribbon Marketing Campaigns
Current breast cancer incidence in the United States shows that one in eight women will be diagnosed in her lifetime. With such high rates, it is safe to say that enough “awareness” has been raised for this devastating epidemic. Now meaningful action is needed to prevent the disease from continui...
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02-17-14
Massachusetts Students Challenge National Assumptions about Breast Cancer
Students throughout Massachusetts are helping redefine the breast cancer movement. While many people think of breast cancer as corporate marketing campaigns and ribbons saturated in shades of pink, there exists a growing movement
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02-05-14
CVS Caremark to Stop Selling Tobacco at all CVS/pharmacy Locations
CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014, making CVS/pharmacy the first national pharmacy chain to take this step in support of the health and well-being o...
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02-04-14
LIVESTRONG Foundation Launches Global Social Innovation Competition Designed to Improve the Lives of People Affected by Cancer
Today, the LIVESTRONG Foundation is launching a unique global competition to generate innovations that advance its mission of improving the daily quality of life for people affected by cancer now.
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01-29-14
St. Joseph Health's CARE Network Top Winner of Premier Cares Award, Receives $100,000 for Disease Management Program
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Premier, Inc. Nasdaq:PINC) has recognized St. Joseph Health's CARE Network with the 22nd annual Monroe E. Trout Premier Cares Award for its disease management and transitional care program. As part of the award, the CARE Network has received $100,000 from Premier. The Cares Awa...
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01-28-14
Tatcha Announces "Beautiful Faces, Beautiful Futures" Partnership With Room to Read
TATCHA® is honored to announce a partnership with Room to Read to support girls’ education. Through the “Beautiful Faces, Beautiful Futures” initiative, each full-size skin care purchase will fund a day of school and support for a girl parti...
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01-21-14
Riding Wave of Success, GMO Inside Announces Campaign to Get GMOS Out of Honey Nut Cheerios
Green America’s GMO Inside campaign today launched a major push to get General Mills to drop genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from Honey Nut Cheerios—the company’s and the nation’s #1 breakfast cereal. The campaign’s website (
