Day: 7 March 2019

DaVita Kidney Care raises awareness for treatment options this National Kidney Month

Stuart Mitchell

DaVita Kidney Care has released a series of educational resources to help raise awareness about treatment options for end stage renal disease (ESRD) in honor of National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day, which is March 14. This year’s World Kidney Day theme is, “Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere.” The theme is in line with DaVita’s goal to enable patients to choose treatment options that fit their lifestyles so they can spend more time doing what they love. “Ensuring patient modality choice is a core commitment at DaVita, and we…

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Celebrities help beat heartbreak forever by attending The Beating Hearts Ball

Stuart Mitchell

The red carpet was rolled out for VIP guests including Pippa Middleton, Vernon Kay, David Seaman and David Ginola at the British Heart Foundation’s annual fundraising gala at the historic Guildhall in London. The glamourous event – the Beating Hearts Ball – welcomed BHF Ambassador and Honorary Gala Chair, Pippa Middleton, sporting legends David Ginola, Anthony Ogogo and David Seaman MBE, and X Factor winner Louisa. The guests came together for a night of fundraising to raise money for the BHF’s life saving research into heart and circulatory diseases. A…

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Apple honours female coders and creators for International Women’s Day

Stuart Mitchell

Apple is celebrating International Women’s Day throughout March by highlighting the stories and work of female developers, musicians, artists, photographers and entrepreneurs. Apple is also building on its commitment to education with a new partnership with Girls Who Code to expand learning opportunities for young women. As part of its community education initiative, Apple is partnering with Girls Who Code to support new coding opportunities for girls and young women in the US. Using the Everyone Can Code Curriculum, 90,000 girls and Girls Who Code Club facilitators in all 50…

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Rolls-Royce ‘leads the way’ with global backing for Unite’s period dignity campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Britain and Ireland’s largest union, Unite praised Rolls-Royce for ‘leading the way’ after the engineering giant gave its backing to the union’s period dignity campaign by agreeing to provide sanitary products at no cost in toilets across its operations in 50 countries around the globe. Rolls-Royce, which is headquartered in the UK, is the first multi-national company to make such a commitment. The global commitment comes after bosses at the Rolls-Royce plant in Washington, Tyne and Wear signed up locally to the campaign and then supported Unite representatives in raising…

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International Women’s Day 2019

Stuart Mitchell

On 8 March, UN Women is observing International Women’s Day to celebrate the tireless work of activists who are central to the global push for gender equality and who strive every day to make women’s rights a reality. This year’s theme, “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change” is being reflected during UN Women events around the world, along with the official commemoration event held at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. Participants include UN Secretary-General António Guterres, UN General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, UN Women Executive…

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