Health and Wellness
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09-08-15
Dutch Company Basic Water Needs will Provide 540,000 Malawians with Safe, Clean Water by 2018
Basic Water Needs, a Dutch manufacturer and marketer of household water treatment and safe storage products, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to distribute its low-cost Tulip Table Top water filters to more than 540,000 Malawians by 2018. The company is establishing...
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08-11-15
Seventh Generation and Mamava Launch Crowdsourcing Campaign to Ease Breastfeeding Challenges of Mothers On-the-Go
(Marketwired) - In celebration of National Breastfeeding Month, Seventh Generation, a leading household and baby care company, is tur...
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08-04-15
GMO Free USA Finds Carcinogenic Weedkiller and GMOs in Kashi GoLean Cereal
GMO Free USA today published the results of independent lab tests documenting that a box of Kellogg’s Kashi GoLean Original cereal which had not been verified by the Non-GMO Project contained glyphosate residue and an even higher level of AMPA (aminomethylphosphonic acid), a metabolite of glyphos...
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08-03-15
Nestlé Launches Global R&D Center in Ohio to Address Diverse Consumer Food Demands
Nestlé celebrated the grand opening of its new Nestlé Research & Development Center in Solon, Ohio, and marked the completion of a $50 million, two-year project to establish this global center dedicated to transforming the way the world enjoys frozen and chilled fo...
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07-27-15
World’s First Malaria Candidate Vaccine "“ Not-for-profit Price "“ Receives Positive Opinion from European Regulators.
GSK announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive scientific opinion for its malaria candidate vaccine MosquirixTM,...
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07-24-15
Subaru of America and Center for Pet Safety Studies Showcase Promising and Shocking Crash Test Results of Pet Crates and Carriers
Subaru of America, Inc. and Center for Pet Safety (CPS), a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit research and consumer advocacy organization, announced today the results of the 2015 Crate and Carrier Crashworthiness Studies - a collaborative initiative to examine the effecti...
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07-24-15
Sandoz Launches Breathe Africa Program to Improve Asthma Diagnosis, Treatment and Patient Outcomes in Zambia
Sandoz today announced the launch of Breathe Africa, a respiratory health program aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of asthma through sharing medical expertise and donating medicines. The program will start in Zambia and will bring European doctors to work...
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07-15-15
Hundreds of Children in India Benefit From Children International’s Early Childhood Development Program Thanks to Support From the Guru Krupa Foundation
About 80 percent of brain development takes place by the time a child is 5, with the first three years seeing the maximum growth1. The early childhood period is a critical time that lays the foundation for lifelong learning. Although India is placing a growing focus on early childhood ...
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07-13-15
Project C.U.R.E. Agreement with Newmont Continues Medical Support in Developing Countries
Building on an eleven-year partnership, Project C.U.R.E. and Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) (“Newmont”) today announced a three-year agreement to deliver at least $...
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07-13-15
MUrgency - UN RESEAU GLOBAL DE REPONSE D'URGENCE (One Global Emergency Response Network): Emergency Response that Connects the World
MUrgency Inc., the San Francisco based tech company which has developed MUrgency - UN RESEAU GLOBAL DE REPONSE D'URGENCE (One Global Emergency Response Network) cloud platform and mobile app, joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to assist half a million people at the base o...
