Alliance for a Healthier Generation Applauds Sodexo for Their Pledge to Fight Childhood Obesity
Sodexo is first food service company to sign on to Alliance's Guidelines Gaithersburg, Md. and New York, NY (Vocus) May 28, 2009 -- Sodexo , a leading food and facilities management services company and a leader in student nutrition, today is the first food service pro...Alliance for a Healthier Generation Applauds Sodexo for Their Pledge to Fight Childhood Obesity
Sodexo is first food service company to sign on to Alliance's Guidelines GAITHERSBURG, Md. and New York, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sodexo, a leading food and facilities management services company and a leader in student nutrition, today is the first food service provider to sign on to the Allia...Albert Lea Residents Pledge to Add 10,000 Collective Years of Life to Their City
ALBERT LEA, Minn., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of Albert Lea residents joined together on Thursday night, May 14, and pledged to take part in the AARP(R)/Blue Zones(R) Vitality Project sponsored by United Health Foundation, an unprecedented city-wide health makeover desig...Regence Optimistic About Health Industry Leaders' Pledge to Cut Health Care Costs
PORTLAND, Ore., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is from Regence BlueCross BlueShield President and CEO Mark Ganz. It is in response to today's announcement by a group of private-sector health industry leaders to decrease the U.S.'s annual health care spending growth rate to save as...Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associates Pledge More Than $900,000 to Community Organizations
PEWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin announced today that its associates have pledged more than $908,000 to support over 1,000 not-for-profit organizations in 2009 as part of the company's annual Associate Giving Campaign. The parent company of...WellPoint Associates Pledge Record Amount to Community Organizations in 2009
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP ), today announced that associates nationwide pledged more than $16 million to support not-for-profit organizations around the country in 2009. The WellPoint Foundation, LLC, will match 50 percent of associate pledges, increasing t...NeoVista Unveils 18-month Data on Novel Wet AMD Therapy at Retina Society Meeting
...over the long-term, but very few patients received additional injections as well," said John N. Hendrick, President and CEO of NeoVista. "The ultimate pledge of this therapy continues to be demonstrated as the long-term data hold promise in minimizing the treatment burden both for patients and physicians, n...Getty Images Celebrates Conclusion of 'Change Me' Imagery Forum
... to change while benefiting a tremendous cause, Friends of the Global Fight," said Gere. "'Change Me' has not only fulfilled a significant financial pledge to Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, but has created a dialogue of powerful imagery that resonates with people all a...Hillary Clinton Pledges Bold Approach to Stopping HIV/AIDS & Global Poverty
...tion and New Hampshire Fights AIDS, had asked that she sign a "Presidential pledge for Leadership on Global AIDS and Poverty," which she signed today. In the... systems, which will help ensure aid can be fully and effectively used. The pledge she signed today includes a promise to "increase the number of health worke...World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action -- according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger. If business proceeds as usual, just as many people will be hungry in the world -...'Annals of the ESA' selected as one of 100 most influential journals
...nd medicine as determined by the SLA. Annals owes this honor to more than 100 years of authors, editors, and reviewers, and on behalf of the journal I pledge our continuing efforts to provide a home for top-quality publications in the field of entomology." According to Tony Stankus, life sciences librari...IVCC and Syngenta start project for novel insecticidal active ingredient for malaria control
...ents a key milestone in our long-term commitment to the fight against malaria and other mosquito transmitted diseases. It is an important part of our pledge to improve the health and quality of life in the rural communities. I am confident this new project will accelerate the development of new vector cont...Shorter wait means longer life for kidney transplant candidates
... alternatives, some of which have raised ethics questions. One example in the United States is a members-only organ-sharing "club" in which people who pledge to donate organs get preferred access to donations from other members. Internationally, there have been reports of people buying organs from live dono...$300,000 donation from BP includes solar vehicle for UH
... BP's gift was presented by Cuadra and Gerald Balboa, senior vice president for BP North American Gas & Power, as the second installment of a $750,000 pledge the company made in March 2008. The donation for the Cullen College of Engineering, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the C.T. Ba...Energy industry leaders commit $1.6M to UH petroleum program
... petroleum engineering program at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, and are proud to be the first company to step forward and pledge support," said Clarence P. Cazalot Jr., Marathon president and CEO. "The creation of this program at UH is significant at this important juncture, whe...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 23, 2008
...e's growing concern that the city's high air pollution levels may threaten their health and impair their performance, despite the Chinese government's pledge to clean-up the air in time for the events, according to an article scheduled for the July 28 issue of Chemical & Engineering News . In a feature...G8 summit: Opportunity for immediate action on climate change
...tunity at the upcoming G8 Summit in Japan to take immediate and substantive action against climate change. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent pledge of 500 million Euros over four years to conserve tropical forests, followed by increased annual spending on forest protection, starts to address a maj...Hand hygiene initiative aims to decrease healthcare-associated infection in developing countries
...which allow the involvement of governments and influence their healthcare systems. The ministries of health from 43 countries have already signed the pledge to reduce healthcare-associated infection and another 20 are expected to join by the end of 2007. The WHO developed guidelines on hand hygiene in h...Saudi Arabia's KAUST and IIT, Bombay to Collaborate on Scientific Research
...ntries and all mankind. Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr, Interim President of KAUST, and Professor Ashok Misra, Director of IIT Bombay, signed the non-binding pledge to establish a solid base of research that will be internationally competitive across a broad range of disciplines and in many multi-disciplinary ar...Wisconsin firms pledge to support healthcare IT standards
Milwaukee, Wis. - During a meeting with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, a group of Wisconsin employers and healthcare organizations pledged to support health information technology by encouraging the use of interoperability standards in the health information technology p...PhRMA Statement on AARP-White House Press Conference
...his agreement will be looked back in time as a momentum changer in the legislative efforts to reform our troubled health care system. Our $80 billion pledge toward that goal represents a huge financial commitment by America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies. But we have a shared vision...Americas on the Waterway Supports US Oncology Foundation
... US Oncology employees enjoy after work social and pledge drive THE WOODLANDS, Texas, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanks to the gener... , employees of US Oncology, Inc . delighted in an after work social and pledge drive to support the US Oncology Foundation . (Photo: http://www....Roche Madison Moves to New Facility
...efforts." "These new lab facilities underscore both our commitment to the innovative talents of the team here at Roche Madison as well as to our pledge to explore and harness the potential of RNA-based therapeutics for complex diseases that are difficult to treat," said Lee Babiss, Ph.D., global head,...University of Minnesota Receives $40 Million for Type 1 Diabetes Research
...11 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Minnesota has received a $40 million pledge for diabetes research from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. Goals...ughout the University will be leveraged to achieve this ambitious goal. The pledge is based on achievement milestones that have been established for each year...HEALTHeCAREERS Network Pledges $15,000 to ASRT Foundation for Professional Healthcare Training
...r promotion into management; therefore, they have to learn the skills necessary to become leaders in the profession." HEALTHeCAREERS Network's pledge to ASRT will be delivered early next year and will be distributed as $1,500 scholarships. "In 2008, we awarded 59 entry-level and professional...BioInnovation Institute in Akron Launched
...al step in driving innovation for the region and Ohio." FirstEnergy Corp. became the first community supporter of the BioInnovation Institute with a pledge of up to $10 million over the next 10 years, expressing long-term support and confidence in the Institute's transformative impact on the local and reg...EMD Serono to Adopt Revised and Strengthened PhRMA Code
...accurate information to healthcare providers about life-saving and life-enhancing medicines. The adoption of the revised Code reaffirms EMD Serono's pledge to focus interactions between company representatives and healthcare professionals on informing them of our products and advancing tomorrow's medicine...