PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - When Vernon Sylvest, M.D., writes a prescription for executives wanting to de-stress, it may read at first glance like an enticing travel brochure:

"Hiking in deep forested mountains… fording peaceful streams… refreshing body and spirit with family-style living, communal discussions and sharing sessions in an antique log house that predates the Civil War."

Actually, these are just some of the active ingredients in the veteran pathologist's unique Rx for healing and healthy living, which will be available to stressed-out CEOs -- and other health-seekers -- after October 20, 2007, when Healing Waters Lodge of Virginia opens its rustic doors on nearly 200

New York Daily News - New York, NY, USA - Former Sen. George Mitchell has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but he says it won't affect the timing or substance of his investigation into baseball's doping history, his law firm announced today.

DLA Piper, which Mitchell serves as chairman, released a statement quoting Mitchell's physician, Harvey Slein, as saying, "The cancer is small, low grade, and localized, and can be effectively treated and cured; the prognosis is very good."

Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader known for his diplomatic efforts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, has been investigating the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball since March

TopCancerNews.com - Dallas, TX, USA - ABCs Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts has heart.

You can read all about it in her article titled A Heart in the Right Place in the July 2007 issue of Ladies' Home Journal -- and her book From the Heart. She writes about her job, about how she was never the most brilliant person to work alongside Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer but how she tends to put herself in the position for things to happen.

"Often, the person who catches the break is the one standing there with her arms outstretched at the right moment," she says. There she was,

Starpulse.com - Branford, CT, USA - Sexy Daisy Fuentes has been named Fitness magazine's first ever Mind, Body, Spirit Superstar, and she credits Jennifer Lopez and her Latina curves for the title. The actress/model, who is engaged to wed former Bros star Matt Goss, insists she never stood a chance of becoming a cover girl on mainstream magazines until Lopez persuaded editors and stylists that big bottoms and curves can be beautiful.

She tells the magazine, "It takes someone as confident as Jennifer Lopez to turn a body part that's often considered a flaw into something hot."

Fuentes uses the article accompanying her new title to reassure other

Broadway World - New York, NY, USA - Registration is open for the 2007 Komen NYC Race for the Cure, which will take place Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 9:20 am in Central Park. It is the signature fundraiser for the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

"We hope to surpass the $4.2 million raised in 2006, said Komen Greater New York City Executive Director Donna Lawrence. "Last year, Komen NYC had to turn down nearly $1 million in worthy grant requests simply because we did not have the funding. We want to be able to fund even more grants this year."

Participants are

Market Wire (press release) - USA - Esteemed cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and celebrity fitness trainer Bob Greene today helped launch a first-of-its-kind fitness program created primarily for heart attack survivors. The program, Heartfelt For Life: Strengthening Your Heart, is a simple, enjoyable fitness routine that can help heart disease patients protect their hearts from a future cardiovascular event.

During the next three months, thousands of free DVD and VHS copies of the Heartfelt For Life video will be distributed at viewing seminars taking place at senior centers and medically based exercise facilities across the United States. Those who can not attend one of the live events

TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe, GA, USA - Actress Angelina Jolie and Fran Drescher have joined forces to fight cancer. Jolie, who recently lost her mother to ovarian cancer, is teaming up with Drescher, who survived uterine cancer, to work with a women’s health charity called Cancer Schmancer.

“Her mother had ovarian cancer and did not win her battle, so she is going to lock elbows with me and we are going to do some things together. We will do a PSA and maybe go to Washington. We are dedicated to ensure that all women’s cancers get diagnosed in Stage 1 by galvanizing and educating, then we can change

Shakopee Valley News - Shakopee, MN, USA - Legendary Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench is coming to Shakopee to talk about pain.

St. Francis Regional Medical Center, in partnership with Stryker Orthopaedics, is inviting the public to hear Bench share his personal experience with joint replacement at a free educational seminar on Monday, Aug. 13, from noon to 2 p.m. Registration will be at 11:45 a.m.

The presentation will be at the hospital’s Conference Center. Light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. Advanced registration required by calling (952) 403-2000.

Attendees will hear from Bench and orthopedic surgeons on the latest advancements in joint replacement and much more. An Orthopedic

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - Being in two places at once is a challenge for most people. Thanks to the imagination of HearUSA (AMEX:EAR), Coach Don Shula will be able to have a presence at each of its 165 company-owned stores.

So how is their most visible representative going to pull off such a feat? Coach Shula’s likeness will appear in the form of life-size cardboard stand-ups that will be displayed in the waiting rooms of all HearUSA and HEARx hearing care centers. Additionally, all of the centers will receive buttons with Coach Shula’s signature phrase, “I heard that!” imprinted on them.

As part of the relationship

Forbes - NY, USA - Struggling to get through that morning workout? Wishing you had just a little more energy during your last 10 minutes on the treadmill?

Forget about your training schedule--it might be time to look at your diet.

Fitness experts and dietitians say what you eat directly before exercising can have a huge impact on your performance and your ability to endure a challenging session. But few pay attention to just how they're filling their tanks.

Jim Karas, author of The Cardio-Free Diet and a fitness expert who has worked with Diane Sawyer and Hugh Jackman as well as countless CEOs, says many of his

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - The latest installment of the "Charlie Rose Science Series" on PBS will focus on the scope and burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and continuing global efforts to treat and prevent the disease. Charlie Rose will be joined by co-host Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate and President of Rockefeller University, and a panel of leading experts and scientists for an informative and in-depth discussion about HIV/AIDS-the scientific research and medical breakthroughs in treatments, as well as the possibility of a vaccine.

Sponsored by Pfizer Inc, the seventh show of the Charlie Rose Science Series begins airing on Tuesday, July 24, on more

BBC News - UK - In a series on celebrities and their health, the BBC News website talks to The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick about life with Hepatitis C and cirrhosis of the liver.

Dame Anita Roddick first set up The Body Shop in Brighton in 1976 to create a livelihood for herself and her two daughters while her husband was away trekking on horseback from Buenos Aires to New York.

Her environmentally friendly ideas were ahead of their time and her "green" cosmetics store soon took off.

Now the brand, which she no longer runs, is sold in more than 50 countries.

Anita is also known for

PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA - Physique Transformation, a personal training studio and wellness provider, announces today that fitness expert and best selling author Ori Hofmekler is the featured presenter during a two-part workshop on Saturday, July 28 titled Balance your Body and Optimize Your Energy. Hofmekler is the author of the recently released The Anti-Estrogenic Diet: How Estrogenic Foods and Chemicals Are Making You Fat and Sick (North Atlantic Books, $16.95, paperback).

The Anti-Estrogenic Diet Workshop, designed by Hofmekler, offers real solutions to the problem that certain foods and chemicals are making you fat and sick. The morning workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to

Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia, PA, USA - Basta with the pasta, Michele; what about the bagels?

"Ah, the bagels," and Michael Tucker lets out a whisper of wonder, letting on he's a man who's known a good bialy in his life.

"Making bagels in a 400-year-old Italian oven. That's a great idea! It'll be the first bagel in that oven. Let's do it!"

Why not? He's done about everything else: Actor, author, chef, raconteur -- racking up year after year of a happy marriage to actress Jill Eikenberry ...

He's doing it all while getting away from it all; Michael Tucker may very well be the Lithuanian Jewish Ponce de Leon.

"It's

New York Post - New York, NY, USA - FOR eight years, real-life couple Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry played husband and wife Stuart Markowitz and Ann Kelsey on “L.A. Law.” They owned a lovely 3,000-square-foot home in California, but they always longed to return to their New York roots and to their old neighborhood on the Upper West Side.

Two years ago, the actors made the big leap, moving to a 1,400-square-foot apartment on Riverside Drive. But Eikenberry still recalls the difficult search like it was yesterday.

“We looked and looked and didn’t like anything we saw,” she says. “Then we walked in here. This was a place where Mike

Playbill.com - New York, NY, USA - Stage and screen stars Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry will take part in a reading of Tucker's new book, "Living in a Foreign Language," July 10 at the Barnes & Noble on West 82nd Street.

The couple will also be on hand to autograph the tome, which is subtitled "A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy." The event is scheduled for 7-8 PM at the Barnes & Noble, which is located at 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street.

A second reading and signing will be held July 11 at the Bookends Bookstore in Ridgewood, NJ from 7-9 PM.

"When their son left

NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - In his new book now hitting store shelves, medical journalist and New York Times best-selling author Robert E. Kowalski gives consumers eager to lower their blood pressure some much-needed positive news about the benefits of several well-studied nutritional ingredients.

In his book, The Blood Pressure Cure: 8 Weeks to Lower Blood Pressure without Prescription Drugs (Wiley; May 2007; $24.95; Cloth; ISBN: 978-0-470-12416-1), Kowalski references some of the most significant, published clinical research on nutritional ingredients that have been shown to safely lower blood pressure. Some of the branded ingredients mentioned include Lyc-O-Mato tomato lycopene complex and MegaNatural-BP Grape Seed Extract, as

Eworldwire (press release) - Succasunna, NJ, USA - Fast food is a way of life in American society; the desire for unhealthy foods has put well over 120,000,000 Americans into an overweight or obese category - with a staggering 50,000,000 Americans with high blood pressure and 101,000,000 with high cholesterol, according to the American Heart Association. Over the last 12 years, public awareness has thrown heart-debilitating news of trans-fat into the fire, and knowledge of the benefits of vitamins and natural herbs has moved to the forefront to the center of attention as a method to promote better health and well-being via efforts like those of BestHealthToYou (http://www.BestHealthToYou.com).

BestHealthToYou

Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle, NY, USA - Gynecor is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Cancer Schmancer, a non-profit organization recently launched by actress and cancer survivor Fran Drescher, on the anniversary of her seventh year of wellness from uterine cancer. Cancer Schmancer will raise awareness and educate women on the risk factors, early warning signs, and diagnostic tools available for Stage 1 diagnosis of all women's cancers, when they are most curable.

Gynecor, a leading anatomic pathology laboratory devoted entirely to women's health, is the only lab that offers the TruTest(TM) endometrial biopsy, which uses a gentle brushing method to collect tissue samples from a wide area

ABC News - USA - Former "Frazier" star David Hyde Pierce just won a Tony award on Broadway. And today, he kicks off our ABC News-USA Today series on caring for aging parents by discussing his own family's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Watch ABC News broadcasts and read USA Today this week for reports in the series, "Role Reversal: Your Aging Parents and You."

David Hyde Pierce: I think the hardest thing in both cases, with my grandfather and with my dad, were the moments when they understood what was happening to them.

It's a disease that takes your brain apart a piece at a time, and it

9NEWS.com - Denver, CO, USA - Dean Karnazes is a passionate advocate for healthy and active living - and he's leading by example. He previously ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days, finishing the feat with the New York City Marathon last fall. He's run across Death Valley in the middle of summer. He's run a marathon to the South Pole. He's run 350 continuous miles.

Now Dean, who is often considered to be the world's greatest endurance athlete, is pushing the limits of endurance by attempting to break a World Record of running more than 153.76 miles (the current record) in 24

Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa, CA, USA - While a lacto-pesco vegetarian diet may not sound very appetizing to some, the food regimen — consisting mainly of quality cheeses, fish and veggies — is the personal diet of integrative medicine proponent Dr. Andrew Weil, and it may be the key to optimal health.

The renowned physician and author will share his eating and cooking tips and introduce his line of The Healthy Kitchen cookware Tuesday at a Bloomingdale's-sponsored event at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

"Americans are eating too much of the wrong kinds of food," he said. "The reason we are seeing so much obesity, especially in kids,