Press Releases
Head Start Kids in ESL Families More Prone to Obesity
Health Behavior News Service - Researchers studying obesity among rural children in Head Start programs have discovered that those from families in which English is the second language are at higher risk for being overweight.
Bayer Completes Acquisition of Schering AG
Bayer reported Wednesday, June 12, 2006 that it completed its 16.9 billion-euro ($21.5 billion) public takeover offer for Schering AG, and now controls 92.4 percent of outstanding Schering shares.
Understanding the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit
WASHINGTON, DC – Now available from Atlantic Information Services is an affordable pocket guide for Medicare’s Part D Drug Benefit. In this handy guide, you will find the plans, the regions, the players, beneficiary eligibility and enrollment, marketing, benefit structure, formulary administration, covered drugs, coordination of benefits, retiree prescription drug coverage, medication therapy management, and e-prescribing. The linked press release provides more information and how to order.
ACE Inhibitors Slow Progression of Chronic Renal Disease
GUANGZHOU, China - ACE inhibitors given to patients with advanced chronic renal insufficiency can double the time it takes to progress to end-stage renal disease.
Black Hispanics in America Suffer Higher Rates of Hypertension than their Hispanic Counterparts (Atlanta, GA - January 25, 2006)
Black Hispanics in America are suffering higher rates of hypertension than their Hispanic counterparts who are white, a new study finds.
Researcher Luisa N. Borrell, assistant professor of epidemiology with Columbia University's school of public health, said her research is the first to examine hypertension along racial lines within the Hispanic ethnic group.
Jackson Heart Study Demonstrates Success in Bringing Science and Community Together (November 12, 2005 - Dallas, TX)
Can the rigors of scientific research learn from the wisdom to the disproportionate burdens of disease, disability, and premature death suffered by ethnic minority populations. The Jackson Heart Study is making strides in developing a novel, community-based approach to reducing cardiovascular disease among African Americans.
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