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08-20-08
Darby Dental Supply's Full Pay Deployment Program Helps National Guard and Reserve Members Provide for Their Families When They Serve Their Country
JERICHO, NY -- (MARKET WIRE - August 20, 2008 - For the past two years, Darby Dental Supply, LLC, the largest all-telesales distributor of dental merchandise, has had a Full Pay Deployment Program in place for its National Guard and Reserve member employees. Equally importan...
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08-18-08
The Reader's Digest Foundation to Donate $100,000 to CancerCare
PLEASANTVILLE, NY. - August 18, 2008 - The Reader's Digest Foundation announced today that it will donate $100,000 to CancerCare, a national nonprofit organization that offers free, professional support services to anyone whose life is touched by cancer: peopl...
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08-18-08
Independence Blue Cross Signs on as Presenting Sponsor of American Diabetes Association's Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Independence Blue Cross (IBC) today announced that it is the presenting sponsor of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA's) Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes to be held in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 4, 2008.
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08-14-08
Benefits Go Green: The Hartford Delivers Thousands of Reusable Bags to Employees at Meetings Nationwide
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.
Th...
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08-12-08
AmeriCares Opens Second Field Hospital in China
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...
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08-11-08
Children of Sichuan Earthquake Connect With Olympic Experience Through Virtual 'Trips' Over Azalea's Broadband Wireless Network
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...
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08-06-08
C-Section Rates Up Across NYC; Average Near 31% Manhattan Shows Sharpest Increase; Staten Island Has Highest Rate
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...
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07-28-08
PBS Presents The Future of Alzheimer's with David Hyde Pierce and Encore Broadcast of The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's
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...
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07-28-08
The Allianz Knowledge July Newsletter: Can the World support more people?
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...
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07-02-08
"Peace Of Heart" Campaign Launches Novel Approach To Fight Heart Disease Epidemic Among Minorities
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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