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 through March and online atwww.riteaid.com/health/. More than 4,800 Rite Aid stores also will help raise funds for AHA by collecting customer donations of $1 or more for red dress paper pinups from Jan. 31 to March 6. Pinups include six detachable money-saving coupons. While Rite Aid’s efforts emphasize women’s heart health in an attempt to debunk heart disease’s myth as being ...Read More

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 Mental Health Parity Act was passed as an attachment to TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) in October of 2008. The new federal parity law requires group health plans to cover treatment for mental illness on the same terms and conditions as all other illnesses. This new parity act provides for equity with respect to numerical limits on inpatient and outpatient ...Read More

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. Through annual events and tireless fundraising efforts, these organizations raise thousands of dollars to find new pathways to a cure. Many of these contributions are generated and given in honor of someone who lost their battle with melanoma – and these gifts are critical to supporting the innovative melanoma research that ...Read More

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 ONE, Jay Solnick, UC Davis professor of medicine and microbiology at the Center for Comparative Medicine and his co-authors report that H. pylori infection may enhance immunity against tuberculosis, a disease endemic in many parts of the world, and for which there is no effective vaccine. “Here is a bacterium that we know is sometimes harmful and that is clearly associated ...Read More

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 the presentation will be available at the Investor Relations section of LCA-Vision’s website at www.lasikplus.com. About LCA-Vision Inc./LasikPlus® LCA-Vision Inc., a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus® brand, operates 61 LasikPlus® fixed-site laser vision correction centers in 28 states and 44 markets in the United States and a joint venture in ...Read More

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 campaigns and developed quality metrics for measuring success. From overcoming issues related to HIPPA compliance, to gaining leadership approval for untested new media efforts, healthcare professionals with marketing, communications and public relations responsibilities are facing a vast array of new challenges. Sessions will illustrate how to ...Read More

Sutter Health announces today it will make the largest disaster-relief donation in the history of the health care system, contributing $1.25 million to help the victims of the powerful earthquake in Haiti. The Northern California network of doctors, not-for-profit hospitals and other health care service providers also will provide critical medical supplies and trained medical personnel to support the relief effort. “We find it difficult to comprehend the staggering human tragedy that continues to unfold in Haiti following Tuesday’s powerful earthquake. Devastating events such as this compel us to look beyond our local Northern California communities to the overwhelming needs of our global community,” said Patrick ...Read More