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Green Marlborough to cut home energy costs, build community
– Green Marlborough will host an orientation for people who want to learn to recycle, conserve water, save energy, rethink transportation and more.
The orientation will be held Thursday Jan. 8 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The first 15 people to sign up get a free “Low Carbon Diet” workbook, a fun, easy-to-use guide that the group uses to help individuals make simple changes to their everyday lives. Read the rest of this entry »
The death of the diet: Eat butter, sip cocktails and nibble chocolate
The latest celebrity guru has surprising (and very welcome) tips for living it up as well as living well.
This diet is revolutionary. It is realistic, attainable and sustainable. It is taking America by storm and is winging its way towards you fast. And it’s so simple that you’ll wonder why no one has come up with it before.
It is the no-diet diet, described in a tremendous Read the rest of this entry »
will give away free generic drugs for the next three months.
The Landover-based grocer — which has 184 supermarkets and 164 pharmacies in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C. — will launch the program from Jan. 2 through March 21. About 36 prescription generic antibiotics will be free.
“We wanted to provide something to help customers in these tough economic times,” said Robin Michel, executive vice president Read the rest of this entry »
) announced that it anticipates 2008 non-GAAP EPS to be no less than US$1.16, compared to prior outlook of US$1.16 – US$1.18 per share.
For 2008, Mindray now expects net revenues to be in the range of US$540 million – US$550 million, compared to prior outlook of US$550 million – US$560 million.
Analysts polled by First Call/Thomson Financial expect the company to report earnings of $0.98 per share on revenues of $550.15 million for fiscal 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Help a leading fashion accessories brand, Swarovski, raise awareness about women’s heart health by purchasing red and heart-shaped jewelry items from its 2009 Go Red For Women® Collection. The company will donate a minimum contribution of $150,000 from the sales of this collection to the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement.
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(Forbes.com)
When Oprah Winfrey confessed last month that she’d failed to stick to her diet and was again tipping the scale at 200-plus pounds, millions of failed dieters could relate. Their futile efforts are not for lack of weight loss programs and products that drive a $58 billion US industry, according to market researcher NPD Group.
The abundance of information, however, often leaves dieters confused about competing claims.
That’s where Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS
— A health care company hired to manage a program for elderly Texans as part of a broad privatization plan was fined more than $1 million by the state in the past year over mounting complaints that included delayed or denied medical care.
Evercare of Texas, a unit of Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group, has drawn the ire of some powerful Austin lawmakers over its management of preventative and long-term care for the state’s most Read the rest of this entry »
With the first-ever human test of a medical treatment based on embryonic stem cells gaining federal approval, researchers are optimistic that President Obama will soon lift a controversial Bush administration ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and speed work to
. The newly approved human trial involves an attempt to repair severed spinal cords in paraplegics.
can replicate over and over, thanks to an enzyme that slows their Read the rest of this entry »
The number of prescriptions for the drugs written for children and adolescents doubled to 4.4 million from 2003 to 2006, in part because of increases in diagnoses of bipolar disorder. Their efficacy in children and Alzheimer’s patients has never been demonstrated, experts said.
Eli Lilly & Co., the manufacturer of Zyprexa, is expected to settle a lawsuit with the federal government as early as today, paying a record $1.4 billion in civil and criminal Read the rest of this entry »