Health and Wellness
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12-02-10
Foundation for Cancer Research & Wellness Launches Petition Drive to Overturn Institute of Medicine's New Vitamin D Recommendations
The Foundation for Cancer Research & Wellness today launched a Facebook Causes petition titled "IOM's Vitamin D Recommendations are NOT Sufficient." The goal is to challenge and overturn the recommendations released two days ago by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Food ...
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12-02-10
Living Goods Receives $915K from Omidyar Network to Improve Health Care, Support Livelihoods in Africa
/PRNewswire/ - Omidyar Network announced today a grant of USD $915,000 to Living Goods, the 'Avon of health care' for the poor. Living Goods operates networks of village health entrepreneurs who go door-to-door to provide health education and sell essential health products a...
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12-02-10
Global Education Campaign Launched to Warn Fire Fighters and First Responders of Occupational Hazards of 'The Silent Killer'
/PRNewswire/ - Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), jointly announced today the launch of "The Silent Killer" educational campaign aimed at raising awareness of the duty-related...
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12-01-10
Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership To Produce Film To Educate Millions in Sub-Saharan Africa About Science of HIV/AIDS
/PRNewswire/ - The nonprofit Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership is announcing a breakthrough media-based education initiative, INSIDE STORY: THE SCIENCE OF HIV/AIDS, in sub-Saharan Africa. A feature-length film is the cornerstone of the project a...
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11-30-10
Dental Volunteers for Israel Honors Henry Schein's Steve Kess at 30th Anniversary Gala
/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...
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11-17-10
FDA Consumer Health Information - Serious Concerns Over Alcoholic Beverages with Added Caffeine
/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.
Find out more a...
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11-16-10
Save the Date: American Cancer Society Corporate Impact Conference - June 9-10, 2011
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...
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11-15-10
The Pentair Foundation Funds Arsenic-Free Water Efforts in Bangladesh
/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...
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11-11-10
Merck and Partners Make Progress In Long-Term Commitment To End River Blindness
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...
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11-09-10
Healthpoint Services Announces Innovative Learning Partnership with Procter & Gamble
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, ...
