Health and Wellness

/PRNewswire/ - Dental Volunteers for Israel (DVI), which is celebrating 30 years of providing oral health care services to underserved families in Jerusalem, regardless of background, honored four people who have helped support the organization, at their New York gala held t...

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Alcoholic beverages to which caffeine has been added as a separate ingredient have raised health concerns at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as in other federal, state, and local agencies.

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Cancer touches more than 40 percent of Americans in their lifetime. With a total cost of nearly $264 billion in health care expenses and lost productivity in 2010, the disease has a major impact on the workforce. If you are responsible for your company's overall health manag...

/PRNewswire/ - The Bangladesh Project seeks to bring safe water to 30,000 rural villages through innovative filtration technology and a microloan program.

An estimated 77 million people in Bangladesh, or roughly half of the country's po...

Public health officials at the 20th Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis in Antigua, Guatemala, confirmed that more than one-third of all Latin Americans who ran the risk of contracting river blindness (onchocerciasis), a leading cause of preventable blindness, are no...

Healthpoint Services Global, Inc. today announces at the 2010 m-Health Summit in Washington, DC, an innovative learning partnership with The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG), aimed at advancing a scalable, self-sustaining model for delivery of water, ...

The American Cancer Society's nationwide Corporate Impact Awards Series today will honor 22 companies and a chief executive officer during the Society's 97th Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The awards will recognize employers' engagement in targeted efforts to significantly impac...

/PRNewswire/ - Kaiser Permanente, one of the country's largest not-for-profit health care organizations, funded 792 grants nationwide, totaling approximately $16 million in the third quarter of 2010. Grants awarded to organizations this quarter included funding basic human s...

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Working with Trilogy International Partners' wireless subsidiary in Haiti - Voila, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are pioneering the use of text messaging technology to fight cholera in Haiti. The new mes...

In collaboration with the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) Novo Nordisk has today launched a training manual specific to the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes care for children in developing countries. Unveiled on the opening day of the I...