Health and Wellness

Would you be able to put food on the table if you could not work because you were sick or hurt? That's the food for thought that hundreds of thousands of employees will receive along with a reusable grocery bag this benefits enrollment season.

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STAMFORD, Coonn., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Continuing its efforts to provide critically needed medical relief for earthquake survivors, AmeriCares has opened a second field hospital in the Sichuan Province. The second field hospital is located in Wenchuan County, w...

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In the Dujiangyan City settlement in the Sichuan Province of southwest China, 24,000 men, women, and children were cut off from the rest of China and the world in the terrible aftermath of the May earthquake. Now, they potentially fa...

NEW YORK,NY. - August 6, 2008 - New York City's cesarean section rate has increased by 24% over the past six years to an average of nearly 31%, and rates are on the rise at nearly every single city hospital, according to new data released by Choices in Childbirth, a New York...

New YORK, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PBS will present a special evening of programming focused on Alzheimer's disease on Sunday, August 3 starting at 9 p.m. ET (check local listings). The programming starts with a national encore broadcast of the Emmy-Award-winning T...

July marks the annual World Population Day. With the world's population expected to grow to over nine billion by 2050, we ask this month whether our planet can deal with more people.

Development agencies and demographers warn that rapidly rising...

Coalition of African American Leaders and Physicians, Community and Preventive Health Organizations, and Laboratory Corporation of America Join UnitedHealth Group and United Health Foundation to Help Communities Lead Heart-Healthy Lives

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ABBOTT PARK, IL - June 27, 2008

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1. In conjunction with National HIV Testing Day, the Magic Johnson Foundation, http://www.magicjohnson.org and

PARAMUS, N.J., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Metro Funding Corp. (Metro), a commercial real estate lending company headquartered in Paramus, NJ, recently began sponsoring a distressed animal shelter. Metro became aware that the shelter, appropriately named Room for One More, was i...

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.,June 20/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New York Blood Center (NYBC), the nation's largest community-based, non-profit, independent blood services center, today launched a mobile blood "donor coach," funded by a $160,000 grant from MetLife Foundation. The br...