Dutch Funeral-Insurance Company Dela Snares Top Media Lion at CannesAdAge.com(Ogilvy Brazil won the promo and activation Grand Prix with an organ-donor campaign for a soccer team, and Ogilvy France and IBM took the top outdoor prize). What it is: Drawi…
Business StandardIndia nails press and poster Gold LionsBusiness StandardThe campaign introduced an organ donor scheme at the football club and, as a direct result, organ donation in Brazil rose 54 per cent in a year; waiting lists for heart and cornea…
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Facebook gives big boost to organ donor registration
New York Daily News “Certainly the jump we saw right after the initiative was unlike anything we’ve ever seen with previous efforts to mobilize public interest in organ donation,” Cameron told the Daily News, citing lackluster DMV efforts and campaigns that fall on deaf ears. |
Times of IndiaFoods to the rescueTimes of IndiaCarrots contain potassium and vitamin A, and studies show that they reduce the risk of lung, breast and colon cancer. Vitamin A protects your skin from sun damage and reduces the occurrence of diabetes as …
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Still breathing the devil’s dust
Eyre Peninsula Tribune Two years ago, when she was 45, Jane Krsevan finally discovered the reason for her stabbing back pains and the excess fluid in her lungs. After a frustrating decade of worsening health and conflicting medical opinions, Krsevan’s ninth doctor started … |
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Diabetics Have Elevated Risk for Death After Lung Transplant
Medscape Results indicated that whether type 2 diabetes was diagnosed before lung transplantation or afterward, the patients’ survival after surgery was similar — and they died significantly earlier than those without the disease. Among patients with type 2 … |
Facebook Organ Donor Initiative Sets Record Rates For New DonorsRedOrbitA new study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that when users were allowed to broadcast their organ donor status, new donor registration increased 21-fold. T…
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‘The largest Tea Party protest since 2010 is tomorrow’
Daily Caller Conservative activists are planning to storm Capitol Hill on Wednesday for what they are predicting will be “the largest Tea Party protest since 2010.” The protest — drawing tea partiers like TV host Glenn Beck and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul — is in … |
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Forget Lab Rats: Testing Asthma Drugs on a Microchip
Wall Street Journal- India These scientists are building “organs on a chip,” spooling together the important cells that make up, say, a lung, and then mimicking the key functions of the organ. Then researchers test to see what kind of impact a potential drug has on this lung … |
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Brzezinski: ‘I’m probably guilty’ of hypocrisy on Bush-Cheney vs. Obama NSA …
Daily Caller On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, co-host Mika Brzezinski attempted to defend National Security Agency policy when it comes privacy concerns, but she ultimately she admitted some hypocrisy in defending President Barack Obama’s programs, while … |