| Dan Clark Joins Resources For Living as Vice President and Chief ... | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:55:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Austin, TX (FV Newswire) - Resources For Living (RFL), pioneering providers of outcomes-based behavioral health counseling and coaching, today announces the hiring of Dan Clark as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Clark will lead all marketing and sales strategies and initiatives with the goal of expanding the full array of RFL's behavioral health services and increasing the already-broad embrace of the company's outcomes-based delivery model. "Dan comes to us with a unique combination of clinical training and senior-level marketing and product development experience," said Wayne Parchman, RFL's President and CEO. "Today, more organizations are demanding accountability from all their benefits providers—and want to see services correspond to quantifiable gains in the way of workforce productivity and/or reductions in healthcare claims costs.... | |
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| | | RClub Interactive Fitness and Kids in Action Partner for a Comprehensive Prescription to Fight Childhood Obesity | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:03:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | As childhood obesity figures continue to grow nationwide, RClub Interactive Fitness -- the Tri-Valley's first fitness club just for children and adolescents -- today announced a new partnership with Kids in Action -- a health management program for overweight children and teens. Together, the two organizations will provide Tri-Valley families with an integrated health management program that combines RClub's kid-friendly exercise environment with the age-appropriate health management program of Kids in Action. "Kids in Action's partnership with RClub is the right prescription to combat childhood obesity," said Andrew Maxwell, M.D., pediatric cardiologist and medical director, Kids in Action. "Our program can manage the medical and nutritional aspects of young people with weight, cholesterol and high blood pressure problems, but to reach our patients' overall health goals, physical activity is a critical component.... | |
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| | | Arkansas halts childhood obesity rise | | Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 10:59:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- An aggressive partnership between schools and state health agencies has stabilized Arkansas' childhood obesity rate over a three-year period, officials announced Wednesday. "We have stopped the runaway train," said Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. "This is not the destination, this is the turning point." The obesity rate in the state's heaviest and most at-risk children dropped from 20.9 percent to 20.4 percent from 2003 to 2006, according to new data from 2006 Arkansas Assessment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity, a yearly assessment of body mass indexes (BMIs) among Arkansas' youth. BMI is a measurement of body fat based on a person's height and weight. Huckabee credited the state agency Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, or ACHI, for keeping rates static.... | |
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| | | Manhattan Pharmaceuticals to Present at 2nd Annual Obesity Drug ... | | Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:57:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, July 19, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX:MHA) today announced that Alan G. Harris, MD, PhD, chief medical officer, will present a scientific overview of oral Oleoyl-estrone (OE), the company's product candidate in development for the treatment of obesity, at the 2nd Annual Obesity Drug Development Summit. The summit is being held July 27-28, 2006 at the Ritz-Carlton in Tyson's Corner, VA; Dr. Harris' presentation will take place on Thursday, July 27 from 10:10am -- 10:40am EDT. OE is currently being tested in a Phase IIa clinical trial in Switzerland. .... | |
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