NAPTE 2008 was good for Cassie Yde of the Television Syndication Company (TVS) and Christmas at Maxwell's. National Association of Television Program Executives programmers were looking for a good Holiday movie, a Christmas present if you will, and Laufer Film's "Christmas at Maxwell's" fit the bill. TVS is distributing the movie and making arrangement for a national TV syndication. "Christmas at Maxwell's" is based in part on a true story and deals with spirituality and healing. CBN.com 's Belinda Elliott says "Christmas at Maxwell's is a heartwarming holiday tale that lovingly illustrat

Watermark Credit Union announced today that it will participate in and sponsor this year's Pennies for Patients program, an annual fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Pennies for Patients program will run March 3 through March 31, 2008 and will promote awareness of blood cancers and raise funds for lifesaving cancer research. (PRWeb Feb 28, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb725543.htm

Bid on unique quilts in support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure (PRWeb Feb 28, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb729264.htm

CustomShowroom.com, the family owned home decor online shopping company joins the fight against cancer by offering free $25 gift cards. When these gift cards are redeemed, CustomShowroom.com will donate $10 to Cancer.org to help fight cancer. (PRWeb Feb 28, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb725224.htm

A recent article published in the open-access journal PLoSPathogens maintains that over its evolutionary history,reassortment of the influenza A virus happens often.Genetic reassortment is when genetic material mixes from two similarviruses that are infecting the same cell. Influenza virus A is aspecies of virus that causes influenza in birds, humans, pigs, andhorses; it has often given rise to human influenza pandemics.

Common Variations In Gene Segments That Increase The Risk For ... Science Daily (press release) - 4 hours ago 28, 2008) — Researchers report that a set of genetic variations in at least four regions of DNA strongly predicts prostate cancer risk and that these ...

Blocking Protein Kills Prostate Cancer Cells, Inhibits Tumor ... Science Daily (press release) - 4 hours ago 28, 2008) — Researchers at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia have shown that they can effectively kill prostate cancer cells in both the ...

British wine lovers may be tempted to binge drink because they must buy larger bottles, it is claimed.

Housecleaners Lending Cancer Patients a Hand FOXNews - 2 hours ago CLEVELAND — Jennifer Gilbride spent most of last year battling cancer : first surgery, then chemotherapy and finally energy-sapping radiation. ...

A new fad among college students and other young people -- smoking from a hookah -- is raising public health concerns. The centuries-old tradition of smoking from a hookah, or waterpipe, is widely perceived to be less harmful and addictive than smoking cigarettes or other forms of tobacco.

Statistics show that since a smoking ban took effect in France a year ago, admissions of patients with myocardial infarction dropped 15 percent at emergency wards. French health authorities told the National Sanitary Institute that there was a 15 percent decrease in admissions of patients with heart attack and stroke to hospitals since the smoking ban in restaurants, hotels and casinos was implemented January 2007.

Although secondhand smoke has been linked to death and illness, a new study suggests that parents around the world do very little to protect their children from "passive smoking" exposure.Heather Wipfli, Ph.D., project director at the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and colleagues conducted home surveys in 31 countries.

Treating African HIV patients at home could slash the number of deaths from the disease, say researchers.

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania points to increased health risks for women owing to their higher level of discomfort about being weighed in public.The study showed that college-age females, more than their male counterparts, experience high degrees of discomfort at the prospect of being weighed in the presence of others.

Reassortment of the influenza A virus occurs frequently throughout its evolutionary history, according to a new study published February 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the National Institute of Health used an evolutionary analysis of influenza viruses sampled from 1918 - 2005 to investigate the influenza viruses that cause seasonal epidemics in humans, particularly those where mortality was unusually high.

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About 10 percent of adults report not getting enough rest or sleep every day in the past month, according to a new four-state study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The data from the four states-Delaware, Hawaii, New York, and Rhode Island-may not reflect national trends.

A protein that helps lung cancer cells thrive appears to do so by blocking healthy cells' ability to fix themselves when radiation or chemicals, such as nicotine, damage their DNA, according to a University of Florida study to be published Friday (Feb. 29) in the journal Molecular Cell.High levels of the protein, known as Bc12, are found in the cells of lung cancer patients who smoke.

Everyone has known for decades that smoking causes cancer, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. This finding may help the tobacco industry develop "safer" cigarettes by eliminating such substances in the smoke, while giving medical researchers a new avenue to developing lung cancer treatments.