The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) announced 10 Blue Cross and Blue Shield company programs as 2008 Best of Blue® Marketing and Communications winners.
A lecture to help Nova Scotians answer questions about hereditary cancers and genetic testing will be hosted by Cancer Care Nova Scotia on Tuesday, May 20, in Halifax. It will also be available by video conference at 19 sites across
An anti-bleeding drug probably will stay off the market, experts say,after a rigorous study found patients getting the medication duringheart surgery were much more likely to die than patients given otherdrugs.
If you didn't get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school,the government is giving you another chance to prove you're in shape. An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece sufferingfrom stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctorssaid Thursday.
STANFORD, Calif. (Business Wire EON) May 15, 2008 -- James McGillicuddy was not getting good news. Three years after arriving at Stanford as one of the nation's top high school football recruits, he'd been stuck on the sidelines the entire
STEMCELL Technologies, Inc. and Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that Geron has granted a license to STEMCELL Technologies ("STEMCELL") under Geron intellectual property relating to primate pluripotent stem cells, including human embryonic stem cells. (PRWeb May 15, 2008) Read
Baxa Corporation has won two Colorado Business Marketing Association Awards for its integrated direct mail campaign featuring the PadLock® Set-Saver product - Best Strategy and Gold Key for Best B2B campaign (less than $50,000). The campaign focused on the product's
Two new studies this week show that women between the ages of 12 and 35 who exercise regularly are 23 per cent less likely to get breast cancer before menopause, and post-menopausal women benefit even more from physical activity.
I'm not advocating throwing out the scale. Keeping tabs helps motivate people to stick to a weight-loss plan. It's also an important strategy to nip small weight gains before they accumulate. It's much easier to lose an extra three pounds
Their studies of mice showed animals exposed to even tiny amounts of the chemicals during development were fatter when they grew older compared with mice not exposed to the compounds, they told the 2008 European Congress on Obesity.
This could include regulations that restrict how companies market "junk" food to children and requirements for schools to serve healthy meals, said Professor Boyd Swinburn, a public-health researcher with the World Health Organization.
Trusted LASIK Surgeons asked a few of the refractive surgery experts who are listed in its LASIK Surgeons Directory to comment on the recently concluded FDA's Ophthalmic Device Panel hearing on LASIK. San Diego LASIK Surgeon Dr. Perry Binder of
Health Dimensions Group, Minneapolis, MN has acquired Fowler Healthcare Affiliates, Atlanta, GA. (PRWeb May 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb940374.htm
Creative MediaWorks, a full-service provider of digital media and graphics for healthcare marketing and education, is pleased to announce an exciting new addition to its growing array of design and digital production services--the Interactive Scientific Poster Library. (PRWeb May 15,
Quantum Choice Optimized to Manage Change in Government Healthcare (PRWeb May 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb941904.htm
Illinois Bone and Joint Institute (IBJI) physicians associated with Evanston Northwestern Hospital (ENH) have discovered a link between nasal staff bacteria and post-surgical infections. (PRWeb May 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb942044.htm
Black & Asian business travellers from the UK could be exposing themselves to the deadly disease, malaria, after a new survey revealed that 50% of travellers who originate from a malarious area believe they have natural immunity when travelling to
