First Day of Summer Has Come: Enjoy the Summer Sunshine Without Putting Yourself at Risk
MILLBURN, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- This week marks the official start of summer. People everywhere will be shedding their spring raincoats and spending time outdoors in the sun's rays. But, before basking in all the sunshine, it's important to practice skin sun safety. MoleSafe, ( www.mol...Camp Sunshine Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Dedicated Volunteers & Donors Provide Needed Support for Sick Children and Their Families CASCO, Maine, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Camp Sunshine, a free program dedicated to supporting children with life-threatening illnesses and their immediate families, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary ...Prescribing sunshine for multiple sclerosis?
Could a holiday in the sun reduce the risk of developing multiple sclerosis? In a recent review for F1000 Medicine Reports , Bridget Bagert and Dennis Bourdette highlight recent advances in potential treatments. Multiple sclerosis (MS) results from a failure of the body to recognize itself. Th...Time for Change - Sunshine and Exercise Part of Holistic Treatment for Osteoporosis
MUNICH, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- For an expert opinion visit: http://62.193.238.61/blueprinttv/osteoporosis/IWDosteoporosis-expert-opinion . html (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field. Remove the spac...Test Your Vitamin D Knowledge: Wellesse Liquid Sunshine Instant Win and Sweepstakes
FERNDALE, Wash., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Wellesse, manufacturers of new Liquid Vitamin D3, has launched an online promotion that challenges participants to assess their vitamin knowledge for a chance to win healthy prizes - including a personal nutrition consultation and a year's supply of liquid ...'Let the sunshine in' to protect your heart this winter
MAYWOOD The temperature might not be the only thing plummeting this winter. Many people also will experience a decrease in their vitamin D levels, which can play a role in heart disease, according to a new review article in Circulation . Vitamin D deficiency results in part from reduced e...Flower power may bring ray of sunshine to cancer sufferers
The grants came from Queensland Cancer Research, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the National Health and Medical Research Council. We are interested in this miniprotein as a potential treatment of prostate cancer, in particular for those patients who relapse, said Dr Harris. The best thi...Run Your Buns off in the 26th Annual Schlotzsky's(R) Bun Run(R) Benefitting Austin Sunshine Camps
- City's longest-running 5K scheduled for Sunday, April 13; long-sleeve t- shirt contest winning design to be revealed - AUSTIN, Texas, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 26th year in a row, Austinites will get their buns in gear for the annual Schlotzsky's(R) Bun Run(R), the city's l...Florida Orange Juice Adds a Healthy Splash of Flavor and Sunshine to Recipes
Enter the 'Back to the Grove' recipe contest for a chance to win a trip to Florida LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- As the winter months linger, who wouldn't want to cook up a Florida getaway? Home chefs and citrus enthusiasts alike have the opportunity to ...Join the Vitamin D Revolution: How to Get 30 Minutes of Daily Sunshine for Optimal Health
The Uncensored Family Guide To Vitamin D offered free by LifeSpan Nutrition SAN DIMAS, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeSpan Nutrition offers the newly released "Uncensored Family Guide To Vitamin D", which reveals the new unfolding science on this essential nutrient that will forever change ...Johnson & Johnson Announces Support for Kohl-Grassley Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2009
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In letters to Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA), Johnson & Johnson today announced its support for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2009 (S. ...Sunshine Heart Announces IDE Approval To Begin C-Pulse U.S. Clinical Feasibility Trial
... SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- sunshine Heart (ASX: SHC), a global medical device company ...he Board commented, "We are proud to announce that sunshine Heart is the first company to receive FDA approval...eatment approach for moderate heart failure raises sunshine Heart's profile as a global development stage medi...Fuels of the future may come from 'ice that burns,' water and sunshine
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2008 Move over, oil, gasoline, and coal. Researchers are describing key advances in developing new fuels to help supply an energy-hungry world in the 21st Century in the eighth and ninth episodes in the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions series. ...Yellowfin tuna biz concept a winner
...-Potential Venture category for their sustainable aquaculture concept designed to produce and sell valuable "goggle eye" bait retailers throughout the sunshine State. "We are very proud of the success Rosenstiel graduate students have had in this competition. It underscores the importance of sustainable a...Food security for leaf-cutting ants: Workers and their fungus garden reject endophyte invaders
...st one organism, but each leaf can have dozens of fungal species growing inside, some of which may protect the plant by excluding pathogens," explains sunshine Van Bael, post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The fungi growing inside leaves without causing disease to the plant ar...2 McGill researchers garner prestigious NSERC Steacie Fellowships
... common blood pressure medication, propranolol. News headlines around the world about this research have often made reference to the fictional Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind. "McGill is extremely proud of these two outstanding researchers," said Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) ...Stanford launches $100 million initiative to tackle energy issues
...aw on deep scientific expertise from across the campus and around the world. From the minusculematerials scientists prying loose more electricity from sunshine through more efficient photovoltaic cellsto the national effort to develop sustainable energy and the global search for ways to reduce atmospheric lev...Vitamin D: New way to treat heart failure?
...protection against some types of cancer: Recent studies suggest there's yet another item for the expanding list of vitamin D benefits. Vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," keeps the heart, the body's long-distance runner, fit for life's demands. University of Michigan pharmacologist Robert U. Simpson, Ph.D.,...Moores UCSD Cancer Center study links vitamin D, type 1 diabetes
...levels and several major cancers. In this new study, the researchers found that populations living at or near the equator, where there is abundant sunshine (and ultraviolet B irradiance) have low incidence rates of type 1 diabetes. Conversely, populations at higher latitudes, where available sunlight is s...Arctic ice more vulnerable to sunny weather, new study shows
...atic impact." The findings indicate that summer sunshine in the Arctic produces more pronounced melting tha... a three-month period in the summer, the increased sunshine was strong enough to melt about a foot of surface ...e loss in the summer. As the ice shrinks, incoming sunshine triggers a spiraling effect: the newly exposed dar...Smithsonian researchers show major role of bats in plant protection
...when they can see birds actively hunting insects. Bats, however, hunt insects at night, which is inherently more secretive and harder to observe, said sunshine Van Bael, a Smithsonian researcher involved in earlier exclosure projects. Kalka speculates that the documented greater effect of bats as insect p...Scientists uncover a novel mechanism that regulates carbon dioxide fixation in plants
...ls, they cannot move on to look for new food sources. This research helps to unlock one way that plants deal with the ultimate variable the amount of sunshine they receive. Professor Nigel Brown, BBSRC Director of Science and Technology said: With a growing world population and increasing demands for ene...Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow
...ensities. The Sandia team found that their nanodetector was orders of magnitude more sensitive, down to about 40 W/m2about 3 percent of the density of sunshine reaching the ground. "Because the dye is so close to the nanotube, a little change turns into a big signal on the device," says Zhou. The research...China Medicine Announces Strong Second Quarter 2008 Results
...t portfolio. Sales of pharmaceutical products obtained though the Guangdong sunshine Medicine Public Internet Bidding System contributed to 35% of total revenue... of 2008, the Company maintained distribution rights, through the Guangdong sunshine Medicine Public Internet Bidding System, to sell all pharmaceutical product...AstraZeneca Supports Transparency Legislation on Payments to Health Care Providers
...ans with timely, relevant information that enables them to make the best treatment decisions for their patients. In supporting the Physician Payment sunshine Act, AstraZeneca builds on the transparency initiative it launched in March. AstraZeneca previously announced it will publicly share additional or enh...Lilly Backs Federal Legislation to Inform the Public on Payments to Physicians
...NDIANAPOLIS, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) announced its support of the newly revised Physicians Payments sunshine Act, sponsored by United States Senators Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Herbert Kohl (D-Wisconsin). The bipartisan bill would establish a national regi...U.S. risks third-world status in key technology
...ida, recognizing that its cryptographic technology and electronic voting software would have averted the fiasco that was the month-long recount in the sunshine State. Ironically, however, it's not likely that this technology will see action in U.S. elections any time soon. Even as our government sends moni...Chinese pharma-biotech dragon rears its head
...ts. Chengdu Rongsheng Pharmaceuticals. Shanghai Institute of Biological Products. Changchun Institute of Biological Products. Shenyang sunshine Pharma. Anhui Anke Biotechnology. Beijing Tri-Prime Genetic Engineering. Changchun ChangSheng Gene. Guangxi Beisheng Pharmaceuticals...