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02-28-11
Anti-Smoking Films by Young People to be Shown at the Responsible Partnerships Exhibition
New charity, The Deborah Hutton Campaign, runs an annual film-making competition, Cut Films, which challenges young people to make short films to persuade their friends not to smoke. In its first national competition, a staggering 78 films have been entered from the four cor...
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02-28-11
Kaiser Permanente Opens Hospital Design Process to the Public
/PRNewswire/ - Searching for the brightest ideas in health care design and delivery, Kaiser Permanente will hold an open hospital design competition inviting students, architects, engineers, designers and teams of multidisciplinary thinkers from around the world to conceptua...
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02-15-11
H2O Innovation and 3M Purification Inc. Partner to Provide Mobile Water Treatment Unit for Project HOPE in Haiti
(Marketwire) - H2O Innovation Inc. ("H2O Innovation" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:HEO) and 3M Purification Inc. ("3M Purification") have teamed up to provide a mobile water treatment unit to Project HOPE to support its humanitarian assistance and health care programs in Ha...
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02-14-11
ViiV Healthcare's Positive Action and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance Tackle HIV Stigma in Six Central American Countries
Today, ViiV Healthcare's Positive Action programme and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance announced that their current partnership, the Vida Digna Project, will expand into five additional countries in Central America over the next three years. The project is part of an ong...
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02-10-11
Industry Veterans Launch Revolutionary Liquid Nutrition - I AM enlightened nutrition(R)
According to The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) in its annual survey commissioned to gauge the health of the supplements market, 65% of Americans take dietary supplements to improve their overall well being. As the first-to-market line of condition specific, sugar-f...
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02-10-11
Medical and Other Healthcare Professional Offices Save Time, Money and the Environment with 'Green' Alternative to Traditional Medical Waste Pick-Up Service
/PRNewswire/ - Sharps Compliance Corp., (Nasdaq: SMED) a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused patient medications, is helping medical and other healthcare pro...
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02-09-11
P&G CSDW Program Provides Three Billionth Liter of Clean Drinking Water
/PRNewswire/ - The Procter & Gamble (NYSE: P&G) Children's Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program has provided 3 billion liters of clean drinking water in the developing world through the distribution of 300 million PUR packets. With the help of global health organizatio...
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02-04-11
Henry Schein, Supplier Partners and American Dental Association 'Give Kids A Smile'
/PRNewswire/ - Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the largest distributor of health care products and services to office-based dental, medical and veterinary practitioners, and its supplier partners have joined with the American Dental Association (ADA), Colgate-Palmolive an...
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02-02-11
ChildFund Partners with Physicians for Peace in Haiti
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - One year after the 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, ChildFund International continues its work in Haiti with Physicians for Peace.
ChildFund has awarded Physicians for Peace a $500,000 grant to support the organization'...
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02-02-11
When Shopping for Meat, the More You Know the Better
/PRNewswire/ - Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI) is providing shoppers with a new level of transparency about how farm animals are raised by now offering beef, pork and chicken certified under 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating system...
