BURBANK, Calif., April 29 /PRNewswire/ — Jonas Brothers’ highly anticipated new album Lines, Vines and Trying Times is scheduled for world wide release June 16, and the ramp up kicks off May 8 with the release of the first single, “Paranoid.” On May 8, “Paranoid” will roll out to radio and online worldwide, and...
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Change to Win Statement on President Obama’s First 100 Days In Office WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Change to Win executive director Chris Chafe issued the following statement regarding the first 100 days of the new Obama presidency: “From investments in energy, education, health care and infrastructure, to repairing our leadership role in the...
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WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Rx Response, an unprecedented partnership created to help ensure the continued flow of medicines to patients in a severe public health emergency, has been put on Alert Status as concerns grow over the health threat posed by outbreaks of swine flu in the United States. “Americans need to know...
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Federal Regulations and Price Controls Limit Vaccine Supplies DALLAS, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fears of a swine flu pandemic highlight the importance of developing new vaccines, as well as meeting public demand for existing vaccines, according to a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis. “We are facing a real threat of...
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CHICAGO, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Harry Potter: The Exhibition makes its world premiere on April 30, 2009, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the only Midwest location on the exhibit’s U.S. tour. The exhibition, which will offer fans a firsthand look inside the boy wizard’s magical world and the opportunity to...
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Over half of physicians say there is a risk for a catastrophic pandemic FLEMINGTON, N.J., April 29 /PRNewswire/ — A new national study among 1,039 physicians revealed that a majority of physicians (63%) reported that there is some level of risk that the Swine Flu will result in a worldwide catastrophic pandemic. The study...
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SMITHFIELD, Va., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Smithfield Foods, Inc. reiterated its prior statement that it has found no clinical signs or symptoms of the presence of North American influenza in the company’s swine herd or its employees at its joint ventures in Mexico. As previously announced, those operations are fully cooperating with Mexican officials...
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WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is convening a group of civil society organizations today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a regional exercise that will kick off the implementation stage of its Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness initiative. The three-day exercise seeks to advance global capacity to thwart a humanitarian...
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SINGAPORE, April 29 /PRNewswire/ — Fears that the swine flu virus would lead to a deadly global outbreak as the World Health Organization (WHO) raises flu alert level dashes hopes of a quicker world economic recovery. The airlines industry, already weakened by the global economic crisis, takes a further beating as customers are expected...
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“Driven by ulterior motives, some overseas media have ignored the facts of the epidemic and basic scientific knowledge and deliberately fabricated rumours that this epidemic came from China,” health ministry spokesman Mao Qunan said. “(They) aim to muddle right and wrong, create disturbances and ruin China’s image,” he said on the ministry’s website. “We...
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