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Washington, DC Community Leaders Commit to Send 10,000 Anti-Malarial Bed Nets to Refugees in Africa

Councilman Jack Evans proclaims it Nothing But Nets Week in DC; Michelle Fenty recognizes all-star youth supporters. Washington, DC (Vocus) June 16, 2009 -- During a public rally today, co-hosted by the United Nations Foundation and its Nothing But Nets campaign, Coun...

Canary Foundation and Stanford University Commit $20 Million for World-Class Research Center for Cancer Early Detection

Center will be the first in the world to integrate research on both in vivo and in vitro diagnostics to deliver blood and complementary imaging tests for solid tumor cancers PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Canary Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research in...

Association Wants One Million People to Commit to CPR Training

DALLAS, May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senior offensive tackle Matt Nader felt like his chest exploded when he collapsed on the sidelines at his high school football game. Quick action by his parents who knew cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the availability of an onsite automated exte...

Top Latin American Television Companies Commit to Addressing AIDS

Broadcasters Join Global Response to Stem Spread of HIV and Challenge Stigma MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senior executives of leading media companies from Latin America announced the establishment of the Iniciativa de Medios Latinoamericanos sobre el SIDA (IMLAS) -...

Transporter could help breast cancer cells commit suicide

AUGUSTA, Ga. Researchers are trying to open a door for a killer that breast cancer cells shut out. "If we can figure out how to do that, we could have a new therapeutic target for fighting breast cancer," says Dr. Thangaraju Muthusamy, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology ...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada and its Foundation Commit Over $340,000 to Nevada Nonprofits in 2008

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada has a long history of giving back to the communities where its associates live and work. In 2008, the strong commitment continued through financial support from the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation and the g...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Colorado and its Foundation Commit $1.6 Million in 2008

Statewide commitments include $645,000 pledged through Associate Giving Campaign DENVER, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Colorado has a long history of giving back to the communities where its associates live and work. In 2008, the strong commitment continued thro...

Program to Identify Likely Victims of Radon-Related Lung Cancer; Survivors Commit to Risk Reduction Despite Failed Government Policy

Most of the 21,000 Americans who die each year of radon-related lung cancer never discover radon exposure was the likely cause. So, the American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST) is now assisting Cancer Survivors Against Radon (CanSAR) with a program aimed at identify...

UJC and Jewish Federations of North America Commit $10 Million for Needs in Southern Israel

Response to Terrorist Missile Strikes NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Jewish Communities (UJC) and the Jewish Federations of North America today committed to raise $10 million to address humanitarian and social needs in southern Israel, part of a major initiative to suppor...

Empire BlueCross BlueShield Associates Commit Over $1 Million to Community Organizations in 2008

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire BlueCross BlueShield today announced that its employees committed more than $1 million to not-for-profit organizations through its 2008 Associate Giving Campaign. This amount is the result of personal giving by associates with a 50 percent match from the We...

AIDS Activists from Across the Country Converge on Oxford, Mississippi, to Call on McCain and Obama to Commit to National AIDS Strategy

OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Senators Barack Obama and John McCain arrive in Oxford, Mississippi for their first presidential debate, they will be greeted by AIDS activists from across the country demanding that the next president develop a National AIDS Strategy withi...

WHO Report Says 9.7 Million at Risk of Death from AIDS Today; AHF Renews Call for US Congress to Commit to Scale up Treatment to Seven Million Lives

LOS ANGELES, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The release of a World Health Organization/UNAIDS/UNICEF report on Monday documents appreciable global progress in the effort to deliver lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ARVs) to people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries; however, it...

Queen Rania Launches Situation Analysis of Children in Jordan Highlighting Jordan's Progress in Improving Quality of Life; 6 Ministers Commit to Further Improving Results

AMMAN, Jordan, May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While usually reserved for lighthearted fun and entertainment, the hallways of the Children's Museum of Jordan saw a different kind of gathering Monday, as child-health and education experts and policy makers came together to discuss the current...

Video: YMCAs Commit to Helping Americans Keep Their New Year's Resolutions in Support of Health and Well-Being

As Less than Two-Thirds of Americans Maintain Resolutions After a Month, YMCAs Increase Opportunities for People of All Ages in their Pursuit of Health and Well-Being in Spirit, Mind and Body CHICAGO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- YMCA of the USA President and CEO Neil Nicol...

Arizona-Based Healthy Lifestyle Corporate Events Helps Football Fans Commit to Good Health

PHOENIX, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that Super Bowl XLII is only days away, NFL fever is on the rise and Healthy Lifestyle Corporate Events (HLCE) is helping to spread a new wave of wellness among fans during Super Bowl week in Arizona. Created by Melanie Albert, Theresa Healy, Andrea Davis ...

Canadian Pacific and Mayo Clinic Build Understanding and Commit to Ongoing Dialogue

ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayo Clinic and Canadian Pacific (CP) conducted their first face-to-face meeting yesterday in Calgary and made a commitment to ongoing dialogue among their two organizations and the community of Rochester as CP progresses through its transition plannin...

Rotary International and Gates Foundation Together Commit $200 Million to Eradicate Polio

EVANSTON, Ill., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rotary International today announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will inject a much-needed US$200 million into the global campaign to eradicate polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease that still pa...

AUDIO from Medialink and Commit Lozenge: Wanna Quit Smoking With Therapeutic Nicotine? Just Follow the Directions

NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Smokers hoping to find success when quitting are urged to follow FDA-approved label recommendations when using therapeutic nicotine. A study in the journal, Addiction, confirms the link between using enough therapeutic nicotine and success. Listen to this rep...

Unemployed Electropaths Threaten to Commit Suicide in Kashmir

Three doctors, qualified in Electropathy, an alternative system of medicine, climbed atop a telecommunication tower here on Monday morning, threatening to kill themselves, unless the State Government promised them jobs. The doctors climbed up with petrol cans and threatened to set themselv...

Australian Girls Took Instructions to Commit Suicide from Internet Site

Internet abuse is by now well documented. The latest is that it can also tell you how to commit suicide. Two Australian girls, Jodie Gater and her friend Stephanie Gestier, were found hanging from a tree in a national park near Melbourne last month. They had been missing for a week before ...

'Copycat Attitude' Pushes Kids to Commit Suicide

Peer influence may be driving many adolescents to commit suicide, say psychiatrists.// Adolescents who commit suicide may be suffering from deeper psychological disorders, and therefore the immediate incident that triggers a suicide may be misleading. Commenting on Rahul, the 11-year-...

Massive Culling Of Poultry Forces Farm Owner To Commit Suicide

The bird flu scare and the resultant decrease in chicken and egg prices have forced a Kolkata based farm owner, Shaktinath Mondal, to commit suicide by consuming pesticide. // The huge debts is said to have been responsible for the owner’s death. The farmer, an owner of one of the biggest po...

Aspirin induces Cancer Cells To Commit Suicide

Aspirin has already been hailed as a wonder drug that can take care of everything from Alzheimer's disease to heart attacks. It has now emerged that it can also induce cancer cells to commit suicide.// Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh report in the December 9 issue of the Journal o...

Federal Judge Sentences Defendants Who Perpetrated $10.9 Million Medicare Fraud HIV Infusion Scheme

...ring their sentencing hearings before U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro. Russell, Pacheco and Milanes were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and multiple counts of health care fraud on March 17, 2009, after a two-week trial in Miami. "Medical professionals serve as ...

President's Council Announces Top 5 Winners of 2009 National President's Challenge

...ed that governors and mayors from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several territories encouraged their residents to take the challenge and commit to improving the overall health of our entire nation. The PCPFS will be giving special recognition to the governors of Guam and the three winning sta...

Moores UCSD Cancer Center Luau & Longboard Invitational Celebrates 16 Years of 'Surfing for a Cure' to Raise Funds for Cancer Research

...ational can also earn a spot on a team - side-by-side with a surf legend - by fundraising through Active.com. Anyone interested in joining a team must commit to raising $2,500, which will earn them a coveted spot in the competition as well as two tickets to the Luau. "Many people have asked how to g...

Leading health organizations launch new accreditation process for laboratories across Africa

... including ASCP, speaks to the realization that investments in infrastructure to date have matured to the point where it is now possible to explicitly commit to having Africa's laboratories aspire to and achieve compliance with international standards. The people of Africa and the world will benefit from th...

Advocates for Health Millennium Development Goals Unite to Demand World Leaders Honor Funding Commitments

...make real progress on meeting the MDGs is for donor countries to engage with developing country governments, and for developing country governments to commit financially and politically to revitalizing their national health systems to meet the challenges of HIV, sexual and reproductive health, maternal heal...

Virtual Nose Jobs to Lead This Year's Top Plastic Surgery Trends

...' photos for comparison purposes. "One of the most common regrets of plastic surgery patients is not having done enough homework before they commit to the surgery," said Hisham Jawad, founder of FaceTouchUp.com. "In many cases, this lack of due diligence results in disappointment with th...

Health Information Technology and Health Care Reform Must Be Well-Aligned to Improve Health and Lower Costs

...hould firmly embrace these goals and facilitate their realization through communications to their own organizations and the American public. We should commit to the achievement of these goals as we dive into the details of policy formulation and execution." The three organizations have submitted ...

LCA Congratulates Nominee For Surgeon General

...annot be made until the public understands the impact of lung cancer and we commit to addressing lung cancer as a disease comprehensively. This is an epidemi... treatment. "We wish you success and a speedy confirmation, and we commit to working with you so that under your leadership we can and will make prog...

World Financial Crisis and AIDS Backlash Threaten Lives

...d effective HIV prevention programmes," said Aditi Sharma, coordinator of the Treatment Monitoring and Advocacy Project of ITPC. "We call on the G8 to commit their fair share towards meeting the Universal Access target -- a first step would be to plug the $5 billion funding gap for the Global Fund to Fight ...

OCI Analytic Uncovers Duplicate Billing in Over 4% Of Workers' Comp Claims

... be determined from the data, however the claim set is easily identified for follow up. To prevent duplicate claims, an employer or organization must commit to integrating its workers' comp and healthcare billing and claims data to identify where the duplicate billing and payments occur. OCI's Informa...

Johnson & Johnson and Elan Corporation plc Announce Definitive Agreement for Alzheimer's Immunotherapy Program and Equity Investment

... Johnson & Johnson, through its affiliate, will assume and continue Elan's activities with Wyeth under the AIP Program and will initially commit up to $500 million to continue the development and launch activities of bapineuzumab, a potential first-in-class treatment that is being evaluated for...

Jury Convicts Los Angeles Physician Assistant for Stealing Doctor's Identity and Defrauding Medicare in $7.7 Million Scheme

...ld Luis Bradshaw, 59, guilty on all charged counts, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, multiple counts of health fraud and aggravated identity ...n on each of the four health care fraud counts as well as the conspiracy to commit health care fraud count for which he was convicted. In addition, he faces ...

Miami Physician Sentenced to 97 Months in Prison for Role in $10 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

...oday's sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck. Rodriguez pleaded guilty before Judge Huck on March 23, 2009, to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. In his guilty plea, Rodriguez admitted that he was a co-owner of and practicing physician at Midway Medical Center Inc. (Midway), a ...

Eight Miami-Area Residents Charged in $22 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care Agencies

...da were charged in an indictment unsealed today in Miami with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Gladys Zambrana was also charged with four counts of he...claims submitted by Florida Home Health. The charge of conspiracy to commit health care fraud carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Each char...

A.L.L. Promises Caritas Christi Investigation After July 1

...up child rape, committing abortions on minors without the required parental consent or notification and intentionally altering legal forms in order to commit abortions. If Archdiocese-affiliated Caritas Christi is indeed making referrals for -- or participating in -- activities incompatible with its Ca...

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Anglo American's Coal Division in South Africa Wins Global Business Coalition Award for top International Workplace HIV and AIDS Programme

...wareness of the issues around HIV and AIDS, Anglo Coal has recruited and trained over 250 'peer educators'. In addition, Anglo American will this year commit over $1.2 million to health and AIDS related services in disadvantaged areas of South Africa. The GBC awards recognize companies which have dem...