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Dana-Farber Offers Tips to Fight Cancer With Your Fork This Holiday Season.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
BOSTON, Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- This time of year offers a cornucopia of cancer-fighting foods, and many of them will end up on the dinner table this holiday season.
Stephanie Meyers, RD, LDN,...
Statement of Kathleen Kelly in Support of National Family Caregivers Month in November; Family Caregiver Alliance Urges New Administration to Recognize and Support the Important Work of Family Caregivers.
November 13, 2008... Byline: Family Caregiver Alliance
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is a statement by Kathleen Kelly, Executive Director of Family Caregiver Alliance.
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With the attention focused on the country's...
Alliance for Children and Families Awards $60,000 in Grants to Member Agencies to Support Aging Services.
November 17, 2008... Byline: Alliance for Children and Families
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Alliance for Children and Families, a national membership association of nonprofit human service providers, has awarded a total of $60,000 in grants to...
What Inspired Your Encore Career? Seventeen People Doing Good Work in the Second Half of Life Win an Unusual Story Contest and a Free Trip to an Historic Summit.
November 17, 2008... Byline: Civic Ventures
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- One winner retired from the military and found his true calling: teaching disadvantaged youth in a homeless shelter. Another realized her childhood dream of becoming a...
Prof: Volunteering Beats Holiday Blues, May Lift Spirits.
November 17, 2008... Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Volunteering to do good this holiday season also may be good for you, says a Purdue University sociologist.
"There is certainly a social benefit for...
Moderate Pay Great for Job Performance, Study Suggests.
November 18, 2008... Byline: Rotman School of Management
TORONTO, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Employers hoping to get the best out of employees with huge performance contingent payments may actually be helping them to do worse, suggests a new paper published...
USC Annenberg Receives Two Major Grants From The California Endowment; The Awards, Totaling More Than $4 Million Over Three Years, Will Expand Programs Improving Health Journalism and Community Health Communication.
November 18, 2008... Byline: USC Annenberg School for Communication
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an effort to improve the quality of health communication and health journalism in Los Angeles and across the country, The California Endowment has...
LSU Health Sciences Center's Elizabeth T.H. Fontham Makes History: First Non-Physician Elected National President of American Cancer Society.
November 20, 2008... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Elizabeth T.H. (Terry) Fontham, MPH, DrPH, Dean of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, will become the first non-physician elected...