Arcadia HealthCare's DailyMed(TM) Signs Deal with Comfort Keepers(R), A Leading Provider of In-Home Care

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arcadia Resources, Inc. (NYSE Amex: KAD ), a leading provider of innovative consumer health care services under the Arcadia HealthCare(SM) brand, has signed an agreement with a leading national in-home care provider Comfort Keepers((R) )to...

EAP Strengthens Service Offerings Through Deal With Broadspire

ATLANTA, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadspire, a Crawford Company and leading third party administrator of workers' compensation and liability claims and medical management services, has announced an agreement to deliver Crawford Care Management services on behalf of Horizon Health, a nationall...

Minority Business Accelerator 2.5+ Client Strong Tool Lands Multimillion Dollar Deal With GE Healthcare

CLEVELAND, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By diversifying its customer base with the assistance of the Minority Business Accelerator 2.5+, Strong Tool Company , has landed a three-year, multimillion-dollar contract with GE Healthcare. Strong Tool, a distributor of metalworking products and ...

Ingenuity Systems Announces Multi-Year Deal With AstraZeneca

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced a multi-year agreement with AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca plans to expand the utilization of IPA in its research and target discovery progra...

New Campaign Helps Americans Deal With Stressful Times

Mental Health America's "Live Your Life Well(SM)" Offers 10 Proven Tools to Combat Stress and Promote Well-Being ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From financial worries to family responsibilities, Americans are dealing with ever-increasing stress in their lives. To help ha...

Orange County Plastic Surgeon Warns: When It Comes To The Face And Body, The Best Deal Could Cost More

Highly regarded Orange County plastic surgeon, Dr. Michael Niccole says there are plenty of ways to look and feel younger through affordable non-surgical treatments while taking time to research and do the homework before jumping into a more permanent change. Newport Be...

Nurses Blast 'Cruel Ruse' by Insurance Giants to Cover Patients as Deal for Forcing Americans to Buy Insurance

OAKLAND, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's largest organization of registered nurses today condemned the conditional offer by the insurance industry to stop denying coverage to sick people in exchange for a massive government bailout. On Tuesday, the insurance trade lobby America'...

Irish-Owned Heritage Casket Company Strikes Multi-Million-Dollar Partnership Deal With Pennsylvania's Matthews International

Companies Partner to Launch Heritage Tributes Line of Caskets in the U.S. PITTSBURGH and NEW YORK, Mar. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Casket Company, an Irish-owned memorial products company, and Matthews International, a U.S.-based leader in the memorialization and death care industries, today...

Frost & Sullivan Says, Innovative Therapies Needed to Deal With the Rapid Spread of Cancer in Europe

LONDON, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cancer may well surpass cardiovascular diseases as the primary case of death in Europe by 2012. To prevent this from happening, cancer therapeutics have to shift in focus from the treatment of symptoms to offering a total cure, despite the complex, multifactori...

Health Care Workers Call on ARH Board Members to Meet, Develop Real Strategy to Deal With Hospitals' Bottom Line

Union Members Say Patient Care at Risk With Threats of Closures, Layoffs LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders from three major unions representing more than 3,000 health care workers at nine Appalachian Regional Health Care (ARH) facilities in eastern Kentucky and south...

Rallies in Five Cities Planned on Friday the 13th to Protect CA Families From the Bad Budget Deal and Permanent, Deep Cuts to Homecare, Education, and Other Vital Services

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Governor and legislators announced a budget deal that includes temporary revenues in exchange for deep cuts and a budget cap that makes them permanent, SEIU members and community allies from around the state plan to rally in front of th...

Berry Chill Offers Sweet Valentine's Day Deal for Couples

CHICAGO, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- This Valentine's Day, Berry Chill is offering a sweet deal for any and all couples -- with any chilled yogurt order, they'll receive a free Valentine's Day Chill: five ounces of Pink Guava flavor chilled yogurt topped with fresh strawberries, pomegranate and ch...

Cyclosporine Eye Drops a Good Deal for Dry Eye

Immunosuppressant works where other lubricants fail, study shows TUESDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Eye drops that contain the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporine may be a cost-effective treatment for dry eye syndrome that doesn't respond to other therapies, a new study suggests. ...

Agresso Wins Another $1 Million+ Deal in Health Care Sector

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Agresso has followed up its $1 million+ Emeritus Corporation deal with another win in the health care sector. After a lengthy selection process, Bethany Care Society has selected Agresso's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution over a num...

Pfizer - Wyeth: Good Deal – Bad Deal?

If Pfizer and Wyeth merge to create a $60 billion company, will it be a good deal or a bad deal? Fintan Walton, PhD, CEO of PharmaVentures, says, ‘This is potentially a bad deal for both companies. Oxford, UK (PRWEB) January 23, 2009 -- If Pfizer and Wyeth merge t...

Joan Lunden Inks Three-Year Deal to Host Health Corner(R) Television Series

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Joan Lunden, the nation's longest-running morning news anchor hosted ABC's Good Morning America for nearly two decades. During her tenure she reported from 26 countries, covered four presidents, five Olympics, and two Royal weddings. One of the most visible ...

Helping children and teens deal with stress in an uncertain time

INDIANAPOLIS As families across the country face losses of nest eggs, homes or jobs, their young children and teens need emotional support. Child psychologist Michele C. Thorne, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and clinical director...

Foundation Radiology Group Announces Multi-Year Deal with Charles Cole Memorial Hospital

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Pittsburgh-based Foundation Radiology Group (FRG) signed a multi-year contract with Charles Cole Memorial Hospital, making FRG their exclusive provider of diagnostic imaging services effective December 31, 2008. Charles Cole Memorial Hospital is located in...

Majority of voters say election outcome will make a great deal of difference on key issues

As part of the ongoing poll series, Debating Health: Election 2008, the Harvard Public Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive conducted a new survey focused on whether voters believe the results of this presidential election will make "a great...

WellSpring Pharmaceutical Corp. Acquires Consumer Product Brands from McNeil Consumer Healthcare -- Deal Enhances US and Canadian Pharmaceutical Business

BRADENTON, Fla. and OAKVILLE, Ontario, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- WellSpring Pharmaceutical Corporation, a growing North American-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, today announced expansion of its consumer health care product line by concluding a transaction with McNeil Consumer Healthcare Divis...

ACS Signs Five-Year, $100 Million Deal to Provide Technology Services to UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

DALLAS, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS ) today announced a five year contract, totaling $100 million, with UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc., a Worcester, Massachusetts-based hospital system, to provide extensive information systems services. Th...

Raw deal for foreign brides in Taiwan: study

More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion. A PhD study undertaken by Queensland University of Technology nursing researcher Yung-Mei Yang has found that foreign wives of...

UK Businesses Urged to Help Employees Deal With Stress More Positively

FRIMLEY, England, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Report Highlights Dangerous Responses To Stress Among Employees UK workers are most likely to turn to alcohol, smoking and comfort eating to help them deal with the stress of their occupations, according to a new 'Stroke in Business' report* ...

Ingenuity Systems and CHDI Announce Multi-Year Deal for Disease-Specific Knowledge Platform

Ingenuity provides state-of-the-art solution for Huntington's disease research by integrating internal knowledge and curated disease content through IPA REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutio...

HighPoint Solutions Signs Deal to Implement Model N Managed Care and Government Pricing System for Specialty Pharmaceutical Company

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- HighPoint Solutions LLC, a premier provider of business-driven IT solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with a global specialty pharmaceutical company to design and implement the Model N Managed Care and Government Pricing Syst...

Consumer Watchdog Raises Concern That Health Policy Cancellation Rules Have Been Derailed in Deal With Kaiser

Sees Improvement But is Concerned About Loss of Legal Remedies SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A settlement with Kaiser Permanente over more than 1,000 patients whose health coverage was retroactively cancelled is an improvement on past proposals because it acknowledg...

Highmark Caring Place Resources Help Children Deal With Death of Parent During Mother's Day and Father's Day

PITTSBURGH, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- With Mother's Day and Father's Day just around the corner, many of us look forward to time spent with family, or to taking the opportunity to express appreciation to our parents, wherever they might live. For a child whose mother or father has died, however, M...

Thelen Instrumental in Closing $1 Billion Outsourcing Deal for Client Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Contract with Perot Systems to Produce $150 million of Administrative Cost Savings NEW YORK, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP has assisted long-time client Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in negotiating a $1 billion contract extension w...

Treating PTSD Helps Kids Deal With Loss

Camp-based therapy proved more beneficial than individual grief counseling, study finds MONDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- Children who experience the unexpected death of a parent after a long illness can suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a finding that has major implicat...

Zipfizz(R) Announces Distribution Deal With the Odom Corporation

- Zipfizz products gain enhanced presence in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest MILL CREEK, Wash., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Zipfizz Corporation, the makers of Zipfizz(R), the healthy energy drink mix that has been embraced by professional athletes, Hollywood and th...

$3 Billion Asbestos Deal Reached by W.R.Grace Company to Pay Asbestos Victims

CHICAGO, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Principals announced today a $3 billion dollar agreement to resolve current and future asbestos claims with chemical manufacturer W.R.Grace & Co. and related entities, which will eventually allow the multinational corporation to emerge from bankruptcy wit...

Despite Looming Shortage of State and Local Public Health Workers, Americans Confident Governments are Prepared to Deal with Public Health Threats

New Center for Excellence Poll Highlights Gaps in Safety Net; Need to Cultivate Talent to Fill Critical Public Health Positions WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Most Americans are unaware that state and local public health departments are facing a serious shortage of skilled profess...

Rogers Reaches Deal with Sports-O-Zone

Partners to Fight MRSA Epidemic ELKHART, Ind., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Indiana-based Sports-O-Zone has joined sports equipment company Rogers to help alleviate the growing number of staph and MRSA infections. Rogers, a leader in the sporting industry, anticipates great resu...

Dblur Concludes Licensing Deal With STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics Integrates Dblur's Software Lens(TM) Technology Into its Image Sensors HERZLIYA, Israel, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Dblur, the developer of Software Lens(TM) technology, today announced a strategic cooperation with STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM ), ...

Kline Analysts Say Clinique-Allergan Deal Sets Beauty Industry Precedent in Channel Diversification

- Smart Strategy Capitalizes on Growing Trend in Professional Skin Care - LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Beauty industry analysts at worldwide consulting and research firm Kline & Company are calling Thursday's announcement by Estee Lauder to marry its powerhouse Clinique brand wit...

Tolerate, accommodate, innovate -- how doctors deal with the risk embedded in the medical system

Risk is an inherent element of the hospital system and the resulting dangers are often normalised by medical staff to allow them to do their job, according to research by a University of Nottingham academic. Dr Justin Waring, Lecturer in Medical Sociology and Health Policy at the University, f...

Top researcher argues most physicians aren't prepared to deal with obesity epidemic

The soaring obesity rates across the globe have been called the most critical challenge to public health of the 21st century. A top university researcher argues that most physicians are not adequately prepared to deal with this obesity epidemic. In an article published in Canadian Family Physic...

D.I.S.C. Scores First Sponsorship Deal as Official Medical Center of the Los Angeles Kings

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- D.I.S.C. (Diagnostic and Interventional Spinal and Sports Care) announces its first major sponsorship deal as the "Official Medical Center" of the N.H.L.'s Los Angeles Kings hockey team. The one-year agreement launches the Marina del Rey-based D.I.S.C. into...

Dong-A PharmTech Signs Licensing Deal With Otechestvennye to Market Zydena in Russia

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Dong-A PharmTech Co. Ltd announced today the signing of a five-year US$50 Million contract with Otechestvennye Lekarstva OJSC, to market in Russia Dong-A's erectile dysfunction drug which is currently sold in Korea under the brand name of Zydena. Un...

InfoLogix Signs Largest International Deal to Date with Healthcare Solutions Agreement in United Arab Emirates

Leading Healthcare Technology Company to Provide Mobility Solutions Across Five Hospitals in Abu Dhabi HATBORO, Pa., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InfoLogix, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFLG), a leading technology provider of mobile enterprise solutions for the healthcare and commerci...