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LFAGW to Run 'Could I Have Lupus?' Workshop on July 26; Mystics Game Follows

WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington metro area residents wondering if they have undiagnosed symptoms of lupus can find out on Sunday, July 26 at a "Could I Have Lupus?" workshop and Washington Mystics game at the Verizon Center, 601 F St., N.W., D.C. As a combination workshop/...

Spots Still Available to Run 2009 ING New York City Marathon With Team Reeve

SHORT HILLS, N.J., July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation today announced that it has a limited number of spots available for the 2009 ING New York City Marathon. The benefits of being part of Team Reeve include: personalized training plan from our te...

Slugs a home run with NIH

VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. -- The National Resource for Aplysia at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has had its resources grant with the National Institute for Health (NIH) extended for an additional five years. The National Resource for Aplysia is the only f...

Media Alert: July 10, Run Miles for Special Smiles

Creating Healthy Smiles for Special Athletes One Step at a Time BALTIMORE, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Academy of General Dentistry: Who: Runners and walkers alike are invited to enjoy Baltimore's running path along the Inner Harbor and C...

Women Who Run May Benefit From Extra Folic Acid

In athletes who stop menstruating, supplements boost vascular function, study finds SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- High-dose folic acid supplementation improved vascular function in young female runners who stopped menstruating (amenorrhea) because their caloric intake was lower th...

ING Names Winners of 'ING Run For Something Better' Student Essay Contest

San Francisco middle school students write about benefits of running; top essayists honored at ING RFSB 4k Run before ING Bay to Breakers 12k SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial services leader ING today selected three winners of a student essay contest. The ...

Nordstrom Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes Run to Temporarily Suspend Traffic in University District on Sunday, May 17

SEATTLE, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Sunday, May 17, traffic near the University of Washington and Montlake Bridge in Seattle will be temporarily suspended for the 27th annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes 8K run, which benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. ...

Matthew Reeve to Run 2009 ING New York City Marathon for Team Reeve

Son of Christopher Reeve to run on behalf of 1.275 million Americans living with spinal cord injury SHORT HILLS, N.J., May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation today announced Matthew Reeve, son of Christopher Reeve and member of the Board of Directors of ...

Hear Indiana holds 6th Annual Talk Walk Run at Fort Harrison State Park to Celebrate Deaf Children Who Listen and Speak

Honored guests include State Rep. Brian Bosma as Master of Ceremonies, and Miss Indiana 2009 Megan Meadors INDIANAPOLIS, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Better Hearing and Speech Month , Hear Indiana will hold its 6th Annual Talk Walk Run presented by Peyton Manning Children's Hospital a...

Team ZERO to Run to End Prostate Cancer in 2009 ING New York City Marathon

Runners Encouraged to Join ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer to Take Strides for the Cause WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Spring is in the air across the country and runners are hitting the pavement to ramp up their running regimes in preparation for upcoming races. ZERO...

Attention Runners: Run the 2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon with Team Reeve

Join a Super Team in a Super City and run the 2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on October 11th with Team Reeve to support the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Registration deadline is approaching, so please apply by April 20th, 2009 at www.ChristopherReeve.org/TeamReeve . ...

Team ZERO to Run to End Prostate Cancer in 2009 Marathons

Runners Encouraged to Join ZERO -- The Project to End Prostate Cancer to Take Strides for the Cause WASHINGTON, April 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Spring is in the air across the country and runners are hitting the pavement to ramp up their running regimes in preparation for upcoming races. ...

Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run Cherry Blossom Ten-Miler Raises $400,000 For Children's National Medical Center

Over the last year, credit unions raised $1 million for children's hospitals nationwide, including approximately $400,000 for Children's National Medical Center, through fundraising activities associated with the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run. Washington, DC-...

ING Names Winners of 'ING Run For Something Better' Student Essay Contest

Metro Atlanta middle school children write about benefits of running; top essayists honored at luncheon Friday before ING Georgia Marathon ATLANTA, March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Financial services leader ING today selected three winners of a student essay contest. The essay win...

Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent Will Serve As Lead Sponsor of Hear Indiana's 6th Annual Talk Walk Run 2009

INDIANAPOLIS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Hear Indiana proudly announces that the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent will be the lead supporter for the 6th Annual Talk Walk Run 2009 fundraiser benefiting deaf and hard of hearing children in Indiana. "For more than 30 years, Hear...

56-Year-Old Grandmother Heads to Antarctica to Run Her Seventh Worldwide Marathon in Under a Year

Compassionate Runner, Linda Quirk, Nationally Known for Her Quest to Raise One Million Dollars for Charity, Makes a Request for More Donations on www.Run7on7.com JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- At 56, Linda Quirk has undergone an amazing journey - seven marathons across seven co...

Independence Blue Cross Enhances Blue Cross Broad Street Run Website, Adds Incentives, Training Videos, and Tips

Helping its members every step of the way, IBC offers those who run 10 free credits toward $150 fitness reimbursement PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The weather may still be chilly, but excitement for the 30th annual Blue Cross Broad Street Run is heating up as runners across the regio...

ING Run For Something Better Receives Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Champion Award

Acting Surgeon General recognizes school-based running program for promoting healthy lifestyle ATLANTA, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Financial services leader ING today received the Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Champion Award from the Surgeon General for its ING Run For Something B...

ING and Fit Miami Foundation Name Winners of 'ING Run For Something Better' Student Essay Contest

MIAMI, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial services leader ING and the Fit Miami Foundation today selected three winners of a student essay contest that celebrates their success in the ING Run For Something Better running program in Miami-Dade County public middle schools. The top three e...

Mottram Honours His End of the HBA Great Australian Run challenge

The historic inaugurual HBA Great Australian Run may be over but Australian champion runner Craig Mottram had one more challenge to complete - switching his health insurance to HBA. Melbourne, VIC (PRWEB) December 9, 2008 -- The historic inaugural HBA Great Australian R...

Fido Got Run Over By a Reindeer: The 10 Vet Bills That Stole Christmas

BREA, Calif., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Sure, it's the most wonderful time of the year, but that doesn't mean Rover won't get sick, break a leg, or eat a nativity set. "He ate a sheep and a wise man," said Deborah Breen of Brewster, New York, whose American bulldog Achilles made a snack of h...

Younger People, Not Seniors, Getting More Colds and Feeling Run Down

New survey from Sambucol(R) Black Elderberry immune boosting dietary supplement highlights which Americans feels vulnerable and why; shows that one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get sick as soon as the season/weather changes NOTTINGHAM, England, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half of U.S. ad...

MSPP Holds Seventh Annual 5K Lucero Memorial Run and Latino Mental Health Breakfast on Sunday, September 28, 2008

Hundreds to "finish" fallen marathon runner's race and raise funds for Latino Mental Health Training Program at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology BOSTON, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, September 28, for the seventh year in a row since he...

STERIS Isomedix Services Offers Gamma Engineering Run Program

MENTOR, Ohio, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- STERIS Isomedix Services is pleased to offer the Gamma Engineering Run program at our Libertyville North, Illinois facility. This unique program allows Customers to study the effects of the gamma process on product components or packaging, and is ideal fo...

Diagnocure announces sponsorship of inaugural undy 5,000 run - Partnership with the Colon Cancer Alliance creates patient awareness of previstage(TM) GCC staging test

WEST CHESTER, PA, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - DiagnoCure Oncology Laboratories, a subsidiary of DiagnoCure, announced corporate sponsorship of the Colon Cancer Alliance's (CCA) inaugural charity event the "Undy 5,000: A Brief Run to Fight Colon Cancer" being held in Philadelphia, PA, on ...

The United States Army Medical Department Announces the Launch of an Innovative New Programming Series Called 'The Strength to Heal' That Will Run on ReachMD XM 157 - The Channel for Medical Professionals on XM Radio.

CHICAGO, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ReachMD XM 157 on XM Satellite Radio and The United States Army Medical Department (AMEDD), today announced the launch of a new 13 week programming series designed to highlight military medicine from across the globe, covering clinical trauma, internal medicine...

West Coast Bank Sponsors Reach the Bridge Run to Benefit the American Lung Association of Oregon

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Sunday, June 29, 2008, West Coast Bank will sponsor the American Lung Association of Oregon's (ALAO) Reach the Bridge Run, Portland's most unique 8k personal challenge run. Race participants choose their own start times, but must reach t...

Man Routes 100-Mile Run Securing Health Care for Inner-City Children

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 15/16, Jason Harper will run 100 miles to raise awareness of the plight of health care for many inner- city children of Oak Ridge Elementary School in Oak Park, the roughest part of inner-city Sacramento, California. Harper, a Community Outreach...

Every Boston Red Sox Home Run Televised on NESN in 2008 to Help Children With Medical Needs

Hess Corporation Announces Home Run Campaign to Support Jimmy Fund and Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hess Corporation today announced that Red Sox home runs this baseball season will help support children with medical needs th...

GNC to Run Sweepstakes, Raffle Fitness Equipment at MORE Magazine Health and Wellness Expo

Plus, meet and greet fitness and figure professionals PITTSBURGH, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: GNC, along with figure professionals Michelle Adams and Allison Frahn WHAT: The MORE Magazine Health and Wellness Expo (part of the More Magazine Marathon a...

Drugs Approved Under Deadline More Likely to Run Into Trouble Later

Mandated approval times lead to fixes after medications have reached millions, study says WEDNESDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that drugs that are approved quickly to meet mandated deadlines are more likely to run into trouble down the line, after they are in ...

ING Run for Something Better to be Featured at 2008 Run Walk Ride Fundraising Conference

Company's cause-marketing program will also benefit from fitness-focused fundraising event at conference ATLANTA, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Pamela Bishop, head of cause related marketing for ING Financial Services, will be a featured presenter at the 2008 Run Walk Ride Fundrai...

Run-in-a-Million Run from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Raise Awareness About AIDS and HIV Testing

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Mike Sacco and close friend Lejon Boudreaux, along with world-renowned, ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes have signed on to bring awareness to the AIDS epidemic by staging a run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The 510-mile trip will kick off World AIDS Da...

Drug-Coated Stents No Riskier in Long Run Than Bare Metal Ones

Largest study to date finds no difference in heart attack or mortality rates SUNDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- In the largest study of its kind to date, Harvard researchers report that they have found drug-eluting stents pose no more risk of heart attack or death than bare metal stent...

Overweight mothers run greater risk of having hyperactive children

If a woman is overweight when she becomes pregnant, the probability is much greater that her child will evince ADHD-like symptoms when he/she reaches school age, according to a new Nordic study. The investigation was carried out by Alina Rodriguez at Uppsala University in collaboration with inter...

PulseLearning (Founded in Child's Bedroom in an Irish Suburban Semi Eight Years Ago and Initially Run on a Second-Hand Computer) Today Named Fastest Growing IT Company in Ireland

TRALEE, County Kerry, Ireland, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- PulseLearning (which was founded in 1999 with an investment of ten euro and was initially run on a second-hand computer set up in a child's bedroom in a Tralee, County Kerry suburban semi), has been named fastest growing IT company in Irel...

Sunday, October 14, MSPP holds Sixth Annual Lucero Memorial Run and Latino Leadership Breakfast

Race to Raise funds for Latino Mental Health Training Program BOSTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, October 14, and for the sixth year in a row since her untimely death, hundreds will run/walk to remember and symbolically "finish the race" for Dr. Cynthia Lucero, the talen...

Ultra-Runner to Run 63 Marathons in 63 Days for Children with Incurable Disease

Stanford Scientists Will Monitor His Health to Help Ensure Success ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Starting Monday September 3rd at Disneyland, ultra-runner and endurance coach Tim Borland will run a full marathon each day for 63 consecutive days in 63 communities to bri...

Get the Most Out of Your Run

Simple steps can prevent injuries, experts say TUESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Jogging can be great for your heart, your weight and your mental health. But running can be tough on the body. All that pounding leaves runners prone to shin splints, stress fractures, pulled muscles...

Headhunters Lice Removal Service Has Lice in Atlanta on the Run

ATLANTA, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- "Head lice are a huge problem and the numbers of cases continue to increase," stated Tommy Lambert, Founder and President of Headhunters Lice Removal Service. "However as big as the Atlanta area is, when our children had lice, there was just no help ...