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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an Epidemic Intelligence Service agent, like in the movie Contagion, tracking down disease vectors and interviewing patients? Now, thanks to an iPad app released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you can. The free app, called "Solve the Outbreak," allows users to examine a range of variables based on factual information in a burgeoning disease outbreak. The...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online If you are freaked out by the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's graphic anti-smoking ads on television, then prepare for more goosebumps. The federal government said that this round of television ads worked so well that it plans to do another round next year, USA Today reported. The ads ran for 12 weeks in spring and early summer, featuring smokers who have had the worst of the worst dealt to them due to their...
SILVER SPRING, Md., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Danya International, Inc. (Danya), a communications, research, and technology firm, recently hired two senior leaders for its executive staff. Janice R. Nall has joined the firm as the Managing Director, Atlanta, where she will provide strategic leadership and vision for the Atlanta operation as well as serve as Danya's Vice President of Health Marketing and Communications. With extensive experience in government information...
BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded a time and materials task order to Unisys (NYSE: UIS) to provide support services to the agency's Information Technology Services Office (ITSO), an organization established to enable CDC to manage its IT Infrastructure. The task order has one base year and two one-year options exercisable at the discretion of the government and is worth up to an estimated $10.2 million. The...
NEW YORK and MONTREAL, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Canwealth Minerals Corporation and partner ICBS Ltd., (OTCPK: ICBT),  announced today that it has acquired an additional 6 claims near its Highland Gold site. The Highland Gold Property is located in the Townships of Poirier and Dalet approx. 78 km north of Amos Quebec in the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The claim is 100% owned by Canwealth Minerals Corporation. It is comprised of 36 claim cells totaling 2024...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The QED Group, LLC is pleased to announce we have been selected to implement the International Technical, Operational, and Professional Support Services II (ITOPSS II) project, a five-year contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Through this award QED will provide support and professional services for CDC tasks, studies and projects around the world. "QED is excited by this opportunity to work with the CDC, a new client...
Clear Dawn Company, the leading manufacturer of metal stamping parts, offers unparalleled customer service and innovative manufacturing skills and fulfills customer’s requirement at the high quality level. Taipei, Taiwan (PRWEB) September 27, 2011 The Clear Dawn Company (CDC), a leading manufacturer of precise metal stamping parts and steel components in Taiwan, offers a wide range of metal stamping and machining capabilities. CDC mainly manufactures stainless steel casting parts,...
ATLANTA, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Museum Day, an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Media, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum in Atlanta opens its doors on a Saturday once each year. This year the Saturday opening coincides with the debut of an innovative handwashing art exhibition, made possible by a generous grant from Georgia-Pacific Professional to the CDC Foundation. Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Keeping Well opens Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, and will showcase the work...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This week marks the release of Steven Soderbergh's newest blockbuster Contagion, a fast-paced epidemiological thriller that may unnecessarily alarm audience members about the nature of a genuine disease outbreak. Life Technologies Foundation has teamed up with filmmaker Jesse Dylan and his production company Wondros to create a short form documentary entitled "CDC 24/7," which sheds light on the real-life work done by the CDC everyday to contain,...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are teaming up to launch "Heads Up to Parents," a new educational initiative designed specifically to provide parents with the facts about how to protect, prevent and respond to youth and high school athlete concussions. The partnership, made possible by a grant from NOCSAE to the CDC Foundation,...
