With Thanksgiving and end-of-the-year holidays coming soon, many Americans will eat, drink and get heavier. It is a challenging season for those working to control and reverse our nation’s obesity epidemic.
Luckily this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the problem and discuss ideas and projects to combat obesity, especially in children, according to [...]

Torchmark Corporation (NYSE: TMK - News) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of US$.14 per share on all of the outstanding common stock of the Company held of record as of the close of business of the Company’s transfer agent on January 2, 2009. The dividend will be paid on [...]

As both the election buzz and economic worries grow, parents and schools still concentrate on their number one priority: the healthy, positive development of their children.
To recognize their outstanding (and pretty creative) efforts, National PTA is awarding 22 local PTA schools with grants of up to $1,000 in honor of PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month, November.
These [...]

HealthMarkets, Inc. (http://www.healthmarkets.com) announced today that its subsidiary, The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company, has introduced a new suite of dental insurance products for individuals of all ages in 26 states.
HealthMarkets, through its insurance subsidiaries, is a provider of health insurance products for the self-employed, individuals and families and small businesses.
“Good dental health is [...]

BROOKDALE SENIOR LIVING
Since 1978, Brookdale Senior Living Inc. has helped seniors lead a quality life in socially engaging settings, full of meaning and dignity. Brookdale currently operate in excess of 550 senior living /retirement communities across the US. 32,000 Brookdale associates serve more than 52,000 residents. ISC (Innovative Senior Care), a fully-owned Brookdale subsidiary provides [...]

Since 1978, Brookdale Senior Living Inc. has helped seniors lead a quality life in socially engaging settings, full of meaning and dignity. Brookdale currently operate in excess of 550 senior living /retirement communities across the US. 32,000 Brookdale associates serve more than 52,000 residents. ISC (Innovative Senior Care), a fully-owned Brookdale subsidiary provides home health [...]

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN(R)) Center for Regulatory Excellence Grant Program recently awarded grants totaling more than $1.7 million to eight U.S. organizations.
The Center for Regulatory Excellence Grant Program funds innovative projects that can have measurable impact on nursing regulation and can create meaningful change. The Center’s research priorities include: continuing [...]

For years, nursing students at the University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing have attended classes all over campus with no centralized building for their studies.
That will change in 2010 when a new $20 million building for the nursing program is completed. Officials and those in the nursing community hope that the new building will [...]

For the past 15 years, mission teams from Walker, Jefferson and Cullman counties have taken time from their busy schedules to go to Honduras to help meet some of its residents’ needs. What began with one team from Christ United Methodist Church with Dr. Tom Camp as the team leader has expanded throughout Alabama and [...]

Tafford Uniforms, a leading supplier of nursing scrubs, shoes, and medical accessories, today announced that two students have been awarded the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship. Charla Walker and Nathan Brimmer are respectively the fifth and sixth recipients of the Tafford Scholarship, which was first awarded in June 2007.
Charla Walker has been awarded the scholarship to [...]