Health and Wellness
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06-23-09
Big Brands Aim to Bolster U.S. AIDS Efforts
Washington, D.C - June 23, 2009) - In response to near-epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS, particularly among minorities in some urban areas of the U.S., the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) and some of America's best known companies today annou...
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06-23-09
Natural Products Foundation Program Makes First 'Healthy Match'
WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Natural Products Foundation (NPF) is pleased to announce the first "match" in its new effort to connect community health programs that are feeling the strain of the current economic climate with natural products companies wi...
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06-23-09
New National Poll Reveals Economic Abuse Defined Differently on Main Street than Wall Street
NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- While 70 percent of Americans know people who are or have been victims of domestic violence, nearly the same percentage of Americans fail to see a connection between domestic violence and "economic abuse," according to a new nationa...
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06-22-09
The Earth Institute and Merck & Co., Inc./The Merck Company Foundation Partner to Strengthen Health Services in Rural Africa
NEW YORK, NY. - June 22, 2009 - With the financial support and collaboration of The Merck Company Foundation, the Earth Institute at Columbia University is launching an ambitious initiative to strengthen community health services for over 400,000 people in ten African countr...
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06-18-09
American Cancer Society to Recognize Corporate Employers Changing the Course of the Cancer Fight
ATLANTA - June 18, 2009 - The American Cancer Society - the nation's leading voluntary health organization and largest non-governmental funder of cancer research and discovery - will present its Corporate Impact Awards June 19 during the Society-hosted Corporate Impact Confe...
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05-28-09
Alliance for a Healthier Generation Applauds Sodexo For Their Pledge To Fight Childhood Obesity
GAITHERSBURG, Md. and NEW YORK - May 28, 2009 - Sodexo, a leading food and facilities management services company and a leader in student nutrition, today is the first food service provider to sign on to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's School Beverage and Competiti...
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05-27-09
Global Health Council Names Jeffrey Sturchio as Next Leader
- May 27, 2009 - Jeffrey L. Sturchio, a longtime leader at Merck & Co. whose quiet diplomacy helped build programs treating more than 100,000 AIDS patients in Botswana as well as protecting millions of Africans from river blindness, has been named President and CEO of th...
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05-19-09
AT&T, Bayer, GE Healthcare, Hewitt Associates, Humana, KPMG LLP, Quest Diagnostics, sanofi-aventis, United Airlines, Walgreens, Wal-Mart Foundation Confirmed for 2009 American Cancer Society Corporate Impact Conference
ATLANTA, GA. - May 19, 2009 "“ A growing number of major companies are participating in the American Cancer Society's 2009 Corporate Impact Conference, June 18-19 in Chicago. AT&T, Bayer, GE Healthcare, Hewitt Associates, Humana, KPMG LLP, Quest Diagnostics, sanof...
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05-11-09
Ready, Set, Go Outside with REI's Passport to Adventure!
SEATTLE, WA - May 11, 2009 - With summer fast approaching, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), a national outdoor retailer, invites children and their families to explore the outdoors together with Passport to Adventure. Launching today, the free program is designed for chil...
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05-11-09
"Go Play Outside" Movement takes on Couch Potatoes to Reduce Childhood Stress and Obesity and Raise Money for Charity
NEW YORK, NY. - May 11, 2009 - Grandparents.com has launched a major national campaign encouraging grandparents to join a movement called:
