Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul
suburb of Eagan, was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan and
continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote a wider, more
economical and timely availability of health services for the people of
Minnesota. A nonprofit, taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health
plan based in Minnesota, covering 2.9 million members in Minnesota and
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The National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit known for its sold-out conferences in Dayton and around the country, is becoming part of the Cleveland Clinic.
About 1,200 people attended the eighth annual Speaking of Women’s Health conference on Nov. 1 at the Dayton Convention Center.
The foundation will transition its assets, including its intellectual property and web site, to the Cleveland Clinic by the end Read the rest of this entry »

Planning, motivation provide foundation for fitness
, Arts & Homes Editor
In print: Saturday, January 3, 2009
ST. PETERSBURG — When their work day is done, David Helms and Vicky Bennati come home and work out.
While others are plopping down on the sofa or popping open the pinot, the St. Petersburg couple might be revving their heart rates on their elliptical machine or stepper. The Vectra weight machine in the corner of their home Read the rest of this entry »

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison
researchers and a Marquette University researcher are winners of
three grants totaling $70,000 from the Wisconsin Women’s Health
Foundation.
The three women will be honored at a luncheon
on Tuesday at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee.
Adeline Veillet of UW-Madison is the
recipient of the $10,000 Markos Family breast cancer research grant
for her work in assessing the role of Tenascin C on breast cancer
risk, Read the rest of this entry »

A new initiative will help build the next generation of community health leaders in Albuquerque.
to implement a national fellowship program in community health here.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Ladder to Leadership program aims to boost the skills and capabilities of early- to mid-level professionals working in health and health-related nonprofit organizations to prepare them to take over as current leaders retire. A study by the
estimated Read the rest of this entry »

Founded in 1998, CardsDirect, LLC is a catalog and internet-based social
expression company headquartered in Plano, Texas that has grown into one
of the most trusted online resources for custom imprinted card products.
Whether it is 25 cards or 25,000+ cards, CardsDirect gives all orders
the personal attention deserved. CardsDirect offers custom printed
greeting cards for consumers and businesses including Christmas Read the rest of this entry »

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said it will give 104 grants of $100,000 each to scientists and researchers in 22 countries for “bold, untested” ideas to improve global health.
The 104 grants were selected from about 4,000 applications. The wide variety of ideas range from creating a “mosquito flashlight” to prevent malaria transmission by disrupting wavelengths, to an attempt to create nanoparticles that will soak up viruses circulating in the body.
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The scholarship recipients were chosen based on their academic achievement, financial need, education enrollment status, and American Indian community involvement. Scholarship recipients include five tribal college students at Dine College, including Melissa Clark, a pre-medicine major from Shiprock, New Mexico; Alison Dedman, a nursing major from Nazlini, Arizona; Danielle Goldman, a pre-medicine major from Farmington, New Mexico; Danelle Jishie, Read the rest of this entry »

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA the Foundation Radiology Group’s mission
is to build the pre-eminent diagnostic imaging, radiology service bureau and
physician practice group network in the United States. FRG uses
state-of-the-art PACS technology, a unique, efficient workflow system,
carrier-grade telecommunications infrastructure and the Internet to provide
the fastest turnaround times in the industry for diagnostic imaging reads.
FRG is focused Read the rest of this entry »