New Ad Campaign Asks D.C. Commuters 'Who's Hogging Our Antibiotics?'

Up to 70 percent of antibiotics are fed to animals on factory farms WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Who's hogging our antibiotics? That's the question a new advertising campaign is posing to area commuters and people visiting Capitol Hill. The series of ads, revealed in D.C...

Walk-In Health Centers Launched By The NHS For Commuters

Patients can now get treated on their way to office or back home, with the launch of unique walk-in-service centers at London Liverpool Street and Manchester Piccadilly train stations//. This patient friendly system eliminates the need for a prior appointment and can be availed from 7 a.m. to 7 p....

Walking, Biking to Work Pays Off

... Active commuters are slimmer and fitter, study finds TUESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay...ng), and those men and women appeared to be more fit. Those who were active commuters were less likely to be overweight or obese and had healthier triglyceride, ...

New York State Department of Transportation and American Lung Association in New York Announce 'Commit to Cleaner Air' Week

...er of Nassau County employees who are reducing their carbon footprint by switching to a compressed work week. If just 10 percent of commuters in the New York metropolitan area carpooled, worked from home or used public transit once a week, emissions of ozone precursors would be reduced by ab...

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Taking the Message of Trust to the Streets of LA

...rgest transportation hubs in the city into an informative environment where commuters can get better acquainted with the hospital's audacious goal of becoming th...station connects Los Angeles to Long Beach and serves the largest volume of commuters in the MTA system. The expansive ad space allowed the hospital to share a v...

Survey research looks at attitudes, obstacles to walking and biking to work

...czynski and Wittman also have co-authored two other abstracts for presentation at national meetings: "Factors differentiating active versus non-active commuters to campus" and "The relationship of eco-friendly attitudes with walking and biking to work." ...

Across All Cultures, Dreams Affect Behavior

...epresentative sample of Americans also supports. Dreams also affect how people act when they awake, another study found. A survey of Boston train commuters found that when they dreamed of a plane crash the night before a scheduled air trip, they would be more likely to change their travel plans than if t...

AT&T Expands Wireless Coverage on Broad Street Line of SEPTA

... PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T*, the only wireless carrier that lets Philadelphia subway commuters talk, text and email underground, today announced it has expanded its wireless network coverage along the Broad Street subway line between the Fairmou...

9/11's Health Effects Lingered for Years

...the health effects among all 71,437 participants of the registry, which includes rescue and recovery workers, lower Manhattan residents, area workers, commuters and passersby. Among the registrants: more than half reported being in the dust cloud from the collapsing World Trade Center towers; 70 percent witnes...

YMCA Calls on Senate to Fund Community-Based Solutions to Address Childhood Obesity Crisis

...t partners to the table to collaborate on the creation of an extensive city-wide trail system that would also connect to adjacent communities allowing commuters an opportunity to engage in physical activity and families an area for activity. A recent study by the Trust for America's Health indicated that inv...

Commuters in Medical Technology

Anpath Group, Inc. Advances Relationship With the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro)

...ederal government are partners in transportation. Thirty-five Metrorail stations serve federal facilities and approximately 40% of Metro's peak period commuters are federal employees. About Anpath Group, Incorporated: Anpath Group, Inc. (Anpath), through its wholly owned subsidiary EnviroSystems, Inc., pro...

Commuters in Biological News

Defectors take the car, cooperators go by bus

...ngestion, delays, and the fundamental reason for US dependence on foreign oil, but is mass transportation in large cities the best alternative. Should commuters take the bus rather than driving to work? Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of the Internet and Enterprise Management , ...

Commuters in Biological Technology

America's Organic Home-Fueling Movement Begins in Los Angeles

...ywood film producer and GreenHouse partner Jon Sheinberg. "We are proud to lower the carbon footprint in the Los Angeles basin, where millions of commuters travel the freeways every day." GreenHouse has partnered with notable companies, including Karl Strauss Brewing Company, Gordon Biersch Brewi...

On location: BIO 2004

...ing against genetically modified food. The city closed down the streets surrounding the Moscone Convention center, only to cause anguish for the citys commuters and businesses that consequently faced a massive traffic jam. Police helicopters constantly flew above the conference and attendees required full cred...

Traffic.com adds Milwaukee to service cities

...e, personalized services for Milwaukee drivers through its website at www.traffic.com , the company announced Thursday. Traffic.com will provide area commuters with "actionable traffic information featuring immediate, at-a-glance displays of roadway traffic conditions including congestion levels, incidents, t...

Searle spirit lives on in Chicago as alumni celebrate at former home

...ed its first phase of development, it will be easily accessible by pedestrians and vehicles from downtown Skokie (via nearby Oakton Street) as well as commuters from downtown Chicago via the new planned Skokie Swift stop to be set up a block away from the campus on Skokie Boulevard and Searle Parkway. The curr...

Cieslewicz, Barrett talk economic collaboration

...ties." Cieslewicz agreed. "There's a great deal of commuting between the two cities," he said, noting the productive time that could be captured if commuters were spending their travel time working in business-apportioned trains rather than keeping both eyes on the road. Triangulation strategy With ...

Chicago-Milwaukee "mega-metro" infrastructure improvements are critical

..., including Milwaukee. Some envision that as the great Meg-Metro area on Lake Michigan stretching down from Milwaukee to Chicago. There are already commuters from Wisconsin that take a train into Chicago from as far away as Milwaukee on a daily basis. That number seems to be growing and the vision of creati...

Mega-Metro Center may go beyond Chicago and Wisconsin

...e transportation planners don't understand is that commuters want to get to work and not make a lot of stops. T...solve some of these highway problems, not just for commuters but also for tourists, boaters, and people going t... based on past experiences. Talking to everyday commuters as well as tourists, it appears as though some pla...