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08-24-10
Merck Provides New Funding to Fight HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Merck today announced The Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing an additional $60 million to support Botswana's African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP). Merck is know...
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08-18-10
Let's Go Play!: Non-Profit Organization KaBOOM! Announces List of 118 "Playful City USA" Communities
To ensure children in their communities are active and healthy, 118 cities and towns across the country earned recognition as 2010 Playful City USA communities despite difficult budgetary decisions and Park and Recreation department funding at its lowest levels in decades.
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08-16-10
Henry Schein Cares Promotes Prevention and Wellness in Cities Across the United States
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the largest distributor of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, announced today that Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Communities will provide free medical and dental services to more than 5,0...
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08-09-10
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund Join Forces
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - For more than three years, the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation in San Francisco and the Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund (formerly Foundation) in Atlanta, have worked tirelessly ...
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08-02-10
Vertically Integrated Partnership Holds Major Food Serving Event to Stop Hunger in Southwest Seattle
/PRNewswire/ - The "Vertically Integrated Partnership to Feed Those in Need" (Vertically Integrated Partnership or VIP) recently held a barbeque at Greenbridge Plaza in White Center (Southwest Seattle) and served over 2,000 people in need a BBQ meal including chicken, sweet ...
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08-02-10
Another Victory for the Sustainable Food 'Moo-vement'
/PRNewswire/ - As part of their collective commitment to health and wellness, Bon Appetit Management Company and Compass Group USA will contract to buy only yogurt from cows not treated with rBGH (also known as rBST) effective today.
Oregon Phy...
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08-02-10
Herbalist & Alchemist Certified as B Corporation
Herbalist & Alchemist, manufacturer of high quality herbals products developed by clinical herbalist, author and noted ethnobotanist David Winston RH (AHG), is pleased to announce they have been accepted a...
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08-02-10
HealthWarehouse.com Partners with Health Care Access Now to Assist Underserved Cincinnati Residents With Medications
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - HealthWarehouse.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: HEWAD), a leading retail mail-order pharmacy and Health Care Access Now, a nonprofit Ohio corporation established to improve access and delivery of healthcare for Greater Cincinnati's underserved populat...
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08-02-10
Parents Concerned Kids Will Bring Home More Than Homework This School Year
(Marketwire) - Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer will soon be a distant memory as parents and kids prepare to open a new chapter of the school year -- but not without fret. According to a new survey commissioned by Seventh Generation, the nation's leading brand of envir...
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07-28-10
Traditional Medicinals(R) Organic Mother's Milk(R) Tea Launches Online Breastfeeding Resource in Honor of World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7, 2010
/PRNewswire/ - In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7, 2010, Traditional Medicinals®, the leader in medicinal teas(1), has launched MothersMilk.com - an online breastfeeding re...
