Rezidor announces the Radisson Blu Hotel, Chisinau in Moldova

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2012The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide and a member of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, announces the Radisson Blu Hotel, Chisinau.

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Careington International Corporation at the 16th Annual Dallas Mayor's Back to School Fair

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2012Careington International Corporation, a premier nationwide marketer of discount dental, prescription, vision and other health care, wellness and lifestyle products, headquartered in Frisco, Texas, will be exhibiting at the 16th annual Mayor's Back to School Fair at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, distributing free discount prescription program ID cards to all attendees.

(1888PressRelease) August 01, 2012 - Careington International Corporation will be exhibiting at the 16th Annual Dallas Mayor's Back to School Fair on August 2, 2012.

Careington International Corporation, a premier nationwide marketer of discount dental, prescription, vision and other health care, wellness and lifestyle products, headquartered in Frisco, Texas, will be exhibiting at the 16th annual Mayor's Back to School Fair at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, distributing free discount prescription program ID cards to all attendees.
This family-friendly annual event will be a great way to provide parents and school-aged children with an opportunity to see what education, health and social services are available to them in their community. These services will be displayed through interactive and informative activities, displays and entertainment.

Careington will be at the event to hand out no-cost discount prescription cards that families can use to save 15% to 60% off generic drugs and 15% to 25% off brand name prescriptions. These cards can be used right away and are accepted at over 58,000 participating pharmacies nationwide, such as CVS Pharmacy, Target, Walmart Pharmacy, Kmart Pharmacy and more in the local DFW area. Over 67% of children in America do not have prescription cards, and Dallas is one of the most expensive cities to fill prescriptions. Simply stopping by the Careington booth can help you save money on prescriptions at your local participating pharmacy. Careington is looking forward to participating in the event and interacting with local consumers.

"Careington is excited to be part of the Dallas Mayor's Back to School Fair and give back to our North Texas community residents, providing an opportunity for families to save money on their prescriptions. Families can pick up a free pharmacy card at the event and use it immediately at participating pharmacies all over Dallas and the nation. Careington has provided access to health care savings for over 30 years and has helped millions of members save money on dental, vision, health and wellness, and more. To date, since only 2009, Careington has helped members save over $15,501,912.00 in prescription costs," said Mark Roberts, Manager of National Accounts.

Please contact Mark Roberts, Manager of National Accounts for Careington International Corporation, for more information on this exciting event. This program is not Insurance.

About Careington International Corporation
Since 1979, Careington International Corporation has provided affordable solutions to more than eight million members nationwide. Dedicated to improving the health and well-being of individuals, Careington's health and wellness discount solutions are designed to complement traditional health insurance and provide significant savings for uninsured or underinsured individuals. For more information, call (800) 441-0380 or visit www.careington.com.

THIS PLAN IS NOT INSURANCE. THIS IS NOT A MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLAN.

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Santevia Adds New Tritan(TM) Water Bottles to Product Line

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2012 Santevia Water Systems, a leader in Alkaline Water Products, today announced the addition of it's NEW Santevia TRITAN

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Americans gaining more weight than they say

ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2012) — Despite the increasing awareness of the problem of obesity in the United States, most Americans don't know whether they are gaining or losing weight, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

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Obesity increased in the US between 2008 and 2009, but in response to the questions about year-to-year changes in weight that were included in the most widespread public health survey in the country, on average, people said that they lost weight. Men did a worse job estimating their own weight changes than women. And older adults were less attuned to their weight changes than young adults. The findings are being published in the article "In denial: misperceptions of weight change among adults in the United States" in the August edition of Preventive Medicine.

"If people aren't in touch with their weight and changes in their weight over time, they might not be motivated to lose weight," said Dr. Catherine Wetmore, the lead author on the paper. "Misreporting of weight gains and losses also has policy implications. If we had relied on the reported data about weight change between 2008 and 2009, we would have undercounted approximately 4.4 million obese adults in the US."

A range of public health campaigns in recent years have urged Americans to lose weight to lower their chances of developing heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. To understand whether people in the US are heeding this advice, Dr. Wetmore, a former Post-Graduate Fellow at IHME and now a biostatistician at Children's National Medical Center, and IHME Professor Dr. Ali Mokdad compared self-reported changes in body weight between 2008 and 2009.

They used data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a yearly cross-sectional survey of adults in the US designed to monitor leading risk factors for morbidity and mortality nationwide. More than 775,000 people were surveyed in the years analyzed, and they were asked multiple questions about their weight, including how much they weighed on the day of their interview and how much they weighed one year prior to their interview.

The researchers found that, on average, American adults gained weight over the study period -- because the reported weights increased between the 2008 and 2009 surveys -- but the 2009 study participants told surveyors that they had lost weight during the previous year. Based on the weights they reported, the prevalence of obesity in the US would have declined from 2008 to 2009. Instead, the prevalence of obesity inched upward from 26% to 26.5%, and average weight increased by about one pound per person between 2008 and 2009.

"We all know on some level that people can be dishonest about their weight," Dr. Mokdad said. "But now we know that they can be misreporting annual changes in their weight, to the extent of more than two pounds per year among adults over the age of 50, or more than four pounds per year among those with diabetes. On average, American adults were off by about a pound, which, over time, can really add up and have a significant health impact."

Not everyone reported losing weight. The researchers found that reports of unintentional weight gain were more common in specific groups:

men and women under the age of 40 those identifying as black, Native American, or Hispanic current and former smokers those consuming less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day those reporting no physical activity those with diagnosed chronic diseases, frequent poor mental health, and insufficient sleep those lacking health care coverage

"It's very popular right now to talk about the underlying environmental causes of obesity, whether it's too much fast food or not enough parks," Dr. Wetmore said. "While we know that the environment definitely plays a role, these results show that we need to do a better job helping people to be aware of what's going on with their own bodies."

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Mom, Daughter Pregnant Raises Issues

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U.S. rule highlights Catholic tensions over contraception

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New Clues to How HIV Infects Body's Cells

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Depression Could Shorten Cancer Survival, Study Suggests

HealthDay – 2 hrs 57 mins ago WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Symptoms of depression are linked to shorter survival times among cancer patients, according to a new study.

The link may be attributed to abnormal stress hormone regulation and inflammatory gene expression, researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center reported in the Aug. 1 edition of PLoS ONE.

"Our findings, and those of others, suggest that mental health and social well-being can affect biological processes, which influence cancer-related outcomes," Lorenzo Cohen, a professor in the center's departments of general oncology and behavioral science, and director of the Integrative Medicine Program, said in a university news release.

The findings "also suggest that screening for mental health should be part of standard care because there are well-accepted ways of helping people manage distress, even in the face of a life-threatening illness," Cohen added.

In conducting the study, the researchers analyzed surveys completed over a five-year period by 217 patients newly diagnosed with kidney cancer that had spread. The participants answered questions about how religious and spiritual they were. They were also asked about their symptoms of depression, social support, quality of life and coping skills.

The patients also provided blood samples as well as five saliva samples daily for three days. The researchers used the saliva samples to track changes in the patients' levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that is usually high in the morning before dropping throughout the day.

At the time of the analysis, 64 percent of the patients had died. The average amount of time these patients survived after being diagnosed was 1.8 years.

Overall, the study revealed that 23 percent of patients were clinically depressed. Even after taking other disease-related risk factors into account, the investigators noted that depression was associated with shorter survival time. Moreover, the study showed that higher than usual cortisol levels throughout the day were also linked to shorter survival among the cancer patients.

Using tissue samples from 15 of the patients with the most significant symptoms of depression and 15 samples from the patients with the mildest forms of depression, the researchers then conducted whole-genome profiling to determine if the depression is linked to increased risk of death for cancer patients.

They found specific signaling pathways, which play a key role in regulating cell inflammation, were expressed at increased levels in patients with depression. The study authors concluded the link between patients' mental health and survival time is associated with inflammatory gene regulation.

"Our findings indicate that we're now able to understand some of the possible biological pathways that explain the association between depression and survival," Cohen noted.

The researchers noted that the study was limited by the fact that it's difficult to determine if patients' stress or symptoms of depression are influenced by other factors or were present before their cancer diagnosis. While the study uncovered an association between depression and cancer survival, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.

More research is needed to investigate if the treatment of depression can improve survival time among cancer patients with mild, moderate or severe mood disorders, the authors added.

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Pets May Help Kids With Autism Develop Social Skills

HealthDay – 2 hrs 57 mins ago WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Introducing a pet into the home of a child with autism may help that child develop improved social behaviors, new research finds.

The study, from French researchers, is the first strong scientific evidence that animals may help foster social skills in individuals with autism, but it also reinforces what clinicians have been hearing anecdotally for years.

"We hear from parents a lot that having a pet or interacting with an animal really helps their child's social behavior, but there hasn't been a study so far that has looked at that scientifically," said Alycia Halladay, director of environmental research at Autism Speaks. "This offers some intriguing evidence to confirm what parents have been saying."

Halladay was not involved with the study, which was published online Aug. 1 in the journal PLoS ONE.

Problems with communication are one of the hallmarks of autism and strategies to combat this are central to autism therapy.

According to Halladay, some people with autism use service dogs but usually to address a particular handicap, such as problems with motor coordination or hearing loss, although not yet for social skills.

Previous studies have verified that having a pet in the house actually improves family bonding and can improve the social skills of a non-autistic child as he or she learns to share with the pet and care for it.

To see if pets might have the same effect in children with autism, the study authors compared the children's social interactions (as reported by the parents of the children with autism) in three different settings: households that had never had a pet; homes that had had a pet since the child's birth; and households that had acquired a pet after the child turned 5.

In total, 260 individuals with autism were involved and the researchers were most interested in social interactions when the child was 4 or 5 years of age, because this is when the social impairments are often at a peak.

Out of 36 measures, participants who had acquired a pet after they were born scored higher in the two categories of "offering to share" and "offering comfort" after having the pet for a few years.

There was no relationship between each individual's IQ and the impact of the pet, leading the authors to conclude that "the benefits that the animals may have on individuals with autism don't seem related to how serious the autism was," said study author Marine Grandgeorge, clinical research associate at the Autism Resource Center of Academic Hospital in Brest, France.

Pets may promote pro-social behavior by acting as "distracters," Grandgeorge suggested.

"When a human is in a stressful situation, a pet seems to distract him/her from the

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Untreated Rabies May Not Be Lethal for All, Study Says

HealthDay – 1 min 55 secs ago WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Bucking the notion that untreated rabies always proves lethal to humans, scientists studying the virus in isolated pockets of the world have found evidence that either natural resistance or an immune response may stave off certain death for some.

Traveling to the Peruvian Amazon, where outbreaks of rabies infections are spurred by highly common vampire bats, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention learned that 10 percent of natives appeared to have survived exposure to the virus without any medical intervention. Another 11 percent were found to have antibodies in their blood that would neutralize rabies.

"This is a potential game-changer if the study is repeated successfully," said Dr. Rodney Willoughby Jr., a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the author of an editorial accompanying the research. "It suggests either that rabies is not universally severe or fatal

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