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 [...]

BioLife Solutions, Inc. a leading developer and marketer of proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation media products for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced that it will supply its CryoStor biopreservative freezing media to Cryobanks International, a Florida-based cord blood stem cell bank for private and public-donation purposes, for long-term storage of stem cells isolated from [...]

The Unilens Vision Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UVICF - News; TSX Venture Exchange: UVI - News) Board of Directors today declared its regular quarterly cash dividend of U.S. $0.09 per common share, payable November 28, 2008 to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 14, 2008.
“We are pleased to continue the U.S. [...]

Fenwal, Inc., a global leader in blood technologies, announced today the names of the 2008 inductees for the Donation Hall of Fame. Nominated by blood centers from across the United States, the 12 inductees are being honored for their long-standing commitment to blood donation.
“Blood is medicine’s most vital natural resource, and it’s frequently in short [...]

Precor has named specialty retailer Busy Body Gyms To Go as the consumer dealer for Precor home fitness equipment in mid-Atlantic markets of Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware and northern Virginia.
Based in Pompano Beach, FL, Busy Body Gyms To Go (BBGTG) is expanding its relationship with Precor from an existing network of 18 locations in Florida [...]

Wynn Kapit graduated in 1955 from the University of Miami, Florida with honors in Business Administration and Law. He then attended Art Center School in Los Angeles and worked in New York as a graphic designer and advertising art director from 1960-66. He moved to California to pursue a painting career and was given a [...]

Backpacks for those eager to return to school. Toys for those who Santa Claus can’t find. Donations that go straight to the heart. This is your Palmetto General Hospital.
At Palmetto General Hospital, we love our community. From the neighborhood that surrounds us to the people that work the hospital floors, we extend our helping-hands and [...]

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Pediatric Services of America is the nation’s largest provider of pediatric private duty home care. At PSA Healthcare we specialize in helping to bring families together again, uniting them in their home while providing state of the art clinical care. We are looking for nurses who are compassionate about helping medically fragile children, enjoy nursing [...]

Clearwater-based Orthopedic Development Corporation (ODC), the maker of the TruFUSE® spinal surgery system, has accused a rival of infringing both the patent and trade dress for a drill guide in one of the first patent design suits to be filed since the Federal Circuit handed down its standard-altering Egyptian Goddess ruling.
ODC lodged the suit, as [...]

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]