Health and Wellness
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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...
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01-31-11
Dow Partners with Global Business Coalition on Healthy Women Healthy Economies Initiative
The Dow Chemical Company (DOW) announced recently its partnership with the Global Business Coalition (GBC) and the U.S. State Department, as well as other leading corporations, to launch a two-year strategic initiative called
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01-31-11
Ringling Bros.(R) CircusFit(R) and HOPSports Join Forces to Combat Childhood Obesity and Inactivity
/PRNewswire/ - Ringling Bros. CircusFit and HOPSports announce new partnership that will allow children around the world to get physically fit while having fun. CircusFit will be powered by the HOPSports Training System combining ci...
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01-28-11
Public Health Experts Recognized for Work in Zinc Deficiency
(Marketwire) - Professors Kenneth H. Brown (University of California, Davis), Ananda S. Prasad (Wayne State University), and Robert E. Black (Johns Hopkins University), were recognized with the 2010 Prince Mahidol Award for "outstanding contributions to global public health,...
