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02-09-12
Global Health Corps Expands to 90 Fellowships; Applications Now Open
Global Health Corps is expanding this year to support 90 emerging leaders in their 2012-2013 Fellowship class. Applications for placements in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and the USA are now open at http://ghcorps.org/apply. GHC is...
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02-09-12
Just Bare(R) Chicken Adds American Humane Certified(R) Farm Program Endorsement
In October 2011, Just BARE Chicken passed the rigorous American Humane Certified® (AHC) standards for the raising and handling of farm animals, joining the list of American Humane Association™ (AHA) certified producers. Beginning this month, the American Humane Certified seal will star...
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01-26-12
UPS Driver Achieves 50 Years Of Safe Driving
A young Navy vet who joined UPS in 1960 has just become the first driver in the company’s history to pass the 50-year mark for safe driving as a member of UPS’s “Circle of Honor.”
Ron “Big Dog” Sowder (the nickname comes from being the company’s longest-tenured safe driver) began his UPS c...
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01-12-12
CITGO Recognizes Lehigh Valley Health for Fueling Good
/PRNewswire/ - Doing good in local communities is a core value woven throughout CITGO Petroleum Corporation and one that is uniquely demonstrated through its Fueling Good Program. Now in its third year, Fueling Good recognizes and rewards local heroes within their communities for the good w...
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12-01-11
The Coca-Cola Company Joins (RED) to Help Eliminate AIDS
The Coca-Cola Company today announced a multi-year partnership with (RED) to raise awareness and money for the Global Fund’s efforts to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015.
The partnership includes an ini...
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11-29-11
Kraft Foods Foundation Launches European Healthy Living Programs
/PRNewswire/ - The Kraft Foods Foundation is expanding its global effort to encourage healthy lifestyles, investing more than $7 million in new programs in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
"We can help improve public health by focusing on our mission to fight hunger and promote healthy li...
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11-28-11
Durban's Mission: Food Security First
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - On the opening day of the United Nations climate talks in Durban, the pro-development NGO World Growth released a new report urging world leaders to focus on the import...
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11-24-11
Supplement on Maternal Health and Noncommunicable Diseases
On 18 November 2011, a supplement made possible through an unrestricted educational grant by Novo Nordisk was published by the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. The supplement, “From biology to policy: The link between maternal health and current and future burden of chronic non...
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11-16-11
BBVA Foundation Unites the Efforts of Massachusetts General Hospital and Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Biomarker Research for Personalized Cancer Therapies
/PRNewswire/ - The BBVA Foundation announced an agreement to underwrite a joint effort between Massachusetts General Hospital and Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital to search for personalized cancer therapies through biomarker research.
The BBVA Foundation Tumor Biomarkers Research Program...
