Health and Wellness
Providing health care, education and resources around the world, wherever they are needed most.
POSTED
03-21-07
Darfur Refugees Trapped in a State of Bare Survival and Little Hope
Dear Friend:
"A state of bare survival and little hope."
That is how one Global Impact charity describes the bleak existence of the 2.5 million forced from their homes due to the conflict in Darfur. These unwilling ...
POSTED
03-08-07
Dole Food Company, Inc. Launches New Corporate Social Responsibility Web Site
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2007--Dole Food Company, Inc. today unveiled a Corporate Social Responsibility web site, www.dole.com/corporateresponsibility. The new web site is a one...
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03-07-07
It's Healthy, Stealthy, and It's What's for Lunch in Your Cafeteria
PALO ALTO, CA - March 7, 2007 - According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 65 percent of adults in the United States are considered overweight or obese. Growing portion sizes and "empty" calories are major contributors to expanding waistlines and to health compl...
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02-20-07
REPORT: What Price Beauty? Risk Posed by Toxics in Cosmetics Could Leave Unwary Investors with a Black Eye
WASHINGTON, D.C. "“ February 20, 2007 - Things could get ugly for investors who ignore glaring health risks in the cosmetics industry, warns a new report from the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN), which represents 20 investment organizations with $22 billion in a...
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02-06-07
The Cannery Designs and Develops Children's Web Site for The Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2007--The Cannery, a Los Angeles-based interactive agency, and The Advertising Council, the leading producer of public service advertisements (PSAs), launched the newly redesigned and more robust U.S. Department of Health and Human S...
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10-01-00
Safeway Teams up with Melissa Etheridge for Month-Long Breast Cancer Public Service Campaign Aimed at Finding a Cure and Increasing Mammogram Screenings
PLEASANTON, CA - October 1, 2007 - Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY), one of the nation's largest corporate supporters of cancer research and treatment, today launched a month-long public service campaign to help find a cure and encourage mammogram screenings and examinations for wome...
