Unilever launched an ongoing PR campaign, which focuses on encouraging healthy lifestyle changes, to coincide with the introduction of Omega Plus, its oil-blend spread.

WASHINGTON: APCO Worldwide is providing media relations support for a coalition of drug companies hoping to persuade the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to permit distribution of peer-reviewed articles on "off-label" use of drugs to doctors.

ATLANTA: Orkin Pest Control launched a cause campaign, Fight the Bite, with a goal of raising $100,000 for 10,000 insecticide-treated bed nets for use in Africa. PR firm Jackson Spalding is handling the campaign.

NEW YORK: Munchkin, the infant and toddler product company, hired Formula to promote its upcoming cause campaign, Project Pink, that encourages mothers to get a breast exam.

Health insurance company Humana expanded its ChangeNow4Health campaign with the April 21 launch of Innovation xChange, an online forum to encourage the public to suggest solutions for the healthcare industry

The Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland (RMHC) needed to breathe new life into its 6th annual Tackle the Tower campaign, a fundraising event that challenges participants to run up the 37-story Erieview Tower.

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Nanci Hellmich lost a lot of weight 27 years ago and transitioned that into a reporting job covering health and wellness at USA Today, where she has worked for more than two decades.

Since joining forces in May 2006, Goodman Media International (GMI) and The Access Project have worked to promote Access Project's mission of creating and maintaining public health programs in Africa.

While the pundits debate the current state of the economy and whether it fits the formal definition of a recession, we continue to see high gas prices, consumer spending is sluggish, the dollar is weak, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, and the housing crisis is affecting everyone from Bear Stearns to the average citizen.