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Bank Offers Free Health Care To Community: Now That’s Corporate Social Responsibility!

Corporate Social Responsibility is essential to build strong relationships with consumers. On the brink of collapse, Puerto Rico’s Doral Bank transformed itself with an aggressive CSR strategy. By offering free mammogram testing and education on health care for women, Doral bank has quickly established itself as a trusted community partner. READ»

Lifetime's Mastectomy Petition - More Surface Than Substance?

Whenever I see a beautifully crafted dessert, I am always hopeful it will taste as good as it looks. More often than not though, I am disappointed by the incongruity between the attractive exterior and inferior interior. This is ...READ»

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In Your Jeans

Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ»

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Can CEOs Cure Cancer?

Big Pharma execs may not know more about the disease than the rest of us, but a group of them are using their power to fight it.READ»

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What is Skin Cancer?

Cancer occurs when cells multiply in an uncontrolled fashion. Any cell can lose control and begin to divide too rapidly, thus causing a cancer of that cell type. In fact, this happens almost daily in our body, but we are equipped ...READ»

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Bad dressing habits ruin your health

Today, fashionable way they dress, favored by women. Worn properly, can make women more beautiful, more healthy; However, if worn properly, it may make women vulnerable even lead to illness. Wearing Classic tall boots, and ingrown ...READ»

Misreading a Mammogram Med Mal

While most people think that an error in medications or treatment is medical malpractice, misreading the results of a test, such as a mammogram, is also considered to be medical malpractice.READ»

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Can Zilico's Cervical Cancer Device Spell the End of Pap Smears?

Pap smears are invasive, uncomfortable, and often inaccurate. They also might soon be a thing of the past. British company Zilico is in the trial stages of a handheld cervical cancer screening device that offers up accurate results ...READ»

Asbestos Information and Alternatives

As one of the smaller states in the United States, it is ironic that Connecticut is one of the largest in terms of asbestos exposure risks. Predominantly used in millions of homes and buildings built prior to 1980, many civilians ...READ»

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The American Cancer Society's Next Crusade

For nearly 90 years, it has led the war against cancer. Now the Society faces another do-or-die challenge: to identify the next generation of leaders who will continue the battle.READ»

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To Vaccinate, or not to Vaccinate

Nothing causes an uproar in this country more than the sex lives of young girls: Who's doing it? And where? How many? And why? How young? And what can be done about it? There's always some crisis when it comes to women and sex. But ...READ»

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OLED's Best Use Yet: Skin Cancer-Killing Bandaid

When you read about OLEDs it's usually in the context of some super-performing display or TV, but now there's interesting news about a medical exploitation of OLED lights. They're being tested as a very efficient way to kill skin ...READ»

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Health Screening Tests That Everyone Needs

For the following diseases, the United States Preventive Services Task Force states that there are effective screening tests and that people should get them. Cervical cancer: The task force strongly recommends screening for ...READ»

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Sony Announces Breast Cancer Awareness Laptop

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and in honor of that, Sony [SNE] is releasing a special-edition Vaio in two models to commemorate awareness. The models will both be light pink, the trademark color of the traditional breast ...READ»

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Dr Peter Chang - Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

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Passion Play

Pallotta TeamWorks inspires intense loyalty from its customers by disrupting their lives, demanding their money, and subjecting them to physical pain. What is Dan Pallotta's secret?READ»

The Agenda - Total Teamwork

Teams of doctors, nurses, and technicians at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic bring new-economy practices to "old-fashioned" medicine.READ»

Are There Holes In My Genes?

A new industry promises to gauge your genetic risk of getting diseases like cancer. Our reporter takes a test.READ»

The Great Flu Video Game Turns Pandemic Into Pastime

The Great Flu Video Game Turns Pandemic Into Pastime

You're the head of the World Pandemic Control, and you've just received word that Gamers' Flu--a rare, highly contagious disease--is spreading through Europe. Should you close the airports, or the markets? Should you distribute face ...READ»

Rate your doctor on DoctorDecision!

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Nu U MedSpa, NU U Med Spa

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Fast Take: Culture

Eli Lilly: Productive Failure.READ»

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An occupational disease-Know About It

An occupational disease is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. An occupational disease is typically identified when it is shown that it is more prevalent in a given body of workers than in ...READ»

Fresh Start 2002: Roche's New Scientific Method

How does a giant pharmaceutical company reckon with genomics technology? By making a fresh start in how it recruits its scientists, manages projects, and uses computers. Here's how the Roche Group is reinventing how it invents.READ»

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Disrupter - Stephen Friend

The driving force behind a genomics technology is conducting a second experiment: figuring out whether he can transplant the energy of a startup into the giant that bought his company.READ»