Almost one year to the date after announcing the receipt of a $138,000 National Institutes of Health grant that will have a major impact on the health and science literacy of listeners of Latino radio, researchers took to the airwaves on January 26 to introduce their program and to test their theories.
Maureen Phipps, MD, MPH, [...]

One in three women dies from cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association (AHA), but there are steps women of all ages can take to safeguard their heart. That’s why Rite Aid is again supporting AHA’s “Go Red For Women” movement by providing free heart health guides in all of its stores nationwide now [...]

Behavioral Health Management, P.C., has recently released a whitepaper entitled ‘Mental Health Parity Preparedness,’ touting the new Mental Health Parity Bill as an opportunity for managed care as well as provider organizations. The paper is an informative overview of The Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, also known a bit more simply as [...]

The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF), the largest independent, national organization devoted to melanoma in the United States, released the following statement thanking the many organizations that help to support innovative research into this dreaded disease.
The Melanoma Research Foundation expresses its deepest gratitude to the numerous foundations that give so generously to melanoma research each year. [...]

It’s been implicated as the bacterium that causes ulcers and the majority of stomach cancers, but studies by researchers at UC Davis, Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) also may play a protective role, against the worldwide killer, tuberculosis (TB).
In an article appearing online Wednesday in PloS [...]

LCA-Vision Inc. (Nasdaq: LCAV), a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus® brand, today announced that members of its executive management team will present at the 2010 Global Healthcare Services Conference on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time in New York City. A live and archived webcast of [...]

Building on the success of 2009, The 2nd Annual Healthcare New Media Marketing conference will address how the recent social media boom and new communication innovations have affected marketing strategies for healthcare professionals. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear case study presentations from foremost healthcare executives who have successfully implemented new media [...]