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uFinancial Partners with Junior Achievement to Provide Free Financial Education to Area Youth and Adults

At the special event, uFinancial officially presented JA with a donation of $15,000 to promote further financial education in the region. (PRWeb Mar 7, 2010)


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Ecobumz Diapers are Going Green While Investing in its Own Community and Employing Women Looking to Enter or Re-enter the Workplace

When Calgary-based Ecobumz Diapers owner Sheridan Sayer looked around for a good, reliable manufacturer for her award-winning cloth diapers, she did not have to look very far from home. Not only did she find a terrific manufacturing facility, she also discovered a great way for her company to support its community (PRWeb Mar 6, 2010)


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The Camp Recovery Center Recognizes an Outstanding Teacher for More Than a Decade of Service

The Camp Recovery Center’s Meadow Lodge celebrates the passion and commitment of Stephanie Spungen, a teacher who has spent more than 12 years inspiring adolescents in substance abuse treatment. (PRWeb Mar 6, 2010)


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Bromley Brook Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls to Raise Money for Haiti Relief

Students at private all-girls boarding school to hold play, bake sale and clothing sale in community to raise money for Hope for Haiti. (PRWeb Mar 6, 2010)


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Kerusso Adds More Inspirational Toys to Their Bestselling Play Line

Kerusso, the number one Christian Apparel Company in the United States, announced today their inspirational toy line has grown again to meet the increasing demand for Christian toys. (PRWeb Mar 5, 2010)


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Protect Your Baby’s Smile (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) — The best way to give your
children’s teeth a healthy start is to begin dental care early in life,
and the American Dental Association has tips for keeping kids’ teeth in
tip-top shape:

Visit the dentist for regular checkups. Set up an appointment
within six months of the eruption of a child’s first tooth, but no later
than the first birthday. Routine exams, cleanings and fluoride treatments
can catch problems early before they get worse and require significant
care. …
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Kids born via IVF mostly faring well into adulthood (Reuters)

Reuters - Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health, though their rates of certain psychological problems appear elevated, a new study finds.
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WHO: over 85M African kids get polio vaccination (AP)

A child is given an oral polio vaccine in Angola camp, southern Khartoum in 2007. A campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five against polio will kick off March 6 in west and central Africa in a bid to halt a year-long epidemic, health bodies said in a joint communique.(AFP/File/Isam al-Haj)AP - The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio.

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Bladder tumor risk higher after childhood cancer (Reuters)

Reuters - Childhood cancer survivors are at a four-fold increased risk of developing new cancers of the bladder later in life, new research shows.
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Health project helps North-South Korean ties: WHO (Reuters)

Reuters - North Korea has reduced deaths from surgery and among women in childbirth under a program funded by South Korea that is building trust across the divided peninsula, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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