For Immediate Release
HealthMart Supply Inc. Named to Washington State's Top Business List for 2009
Ferndale, Washington, Feb 20, 2009 In recognition of the economic power of privately held businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading business-to-business internet site, recently named HealthMart Supply Inc. as one of the top businesses in the United States.
This is the 9th annual listing of the USA top businesses by DiversityBusiness.com. Ranging in revenue size from 250,000 to over , the companies listed on the Top Business Lists represent the Nation’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a privately held business is small or insignificant. Winners are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with small businesses.
“Entrepreneurs are a growing force in the U.S. economy, and a force to be reckoned with,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness.com. This is a whole business segment that can carry its own, that provides jobs, products and services, and generates wealth for their communities. These are the new leaders in American business.”
The List
This List is a classification that represents the top small businesses in the U.S., in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Large organizational buyers throughout the country that do business with multicultural, small and women-owned businesses use the list. The List is produced annually by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to multicultural product and service suppliers.
The winning companies will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “9th Annual Multicultural Business Conference”, taking place April 29 – May 1, 2009 at the Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Florida.
For the complete list of winning companies, please visit: www.diversitybusiness.com
About HealthMart Supply Inc.
A small corporation now located in the Pacific Northwest, started in California in the early '90s to help service groups and laboratories to control replacement parts costs. Offering parts and consumables for lab analyzers, we are now specializing in Cell Dyn Hematology analyzers. Have been recognized by Washington States' top 100 Diversity Business list for several years running.
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness, with over 46,000 members, is the largest organization of diversity owned businesses throughout the United States that provide goods and services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and colleges and universities. DiversityBusiness provides research and data collection services for diversity including the "Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities", "Top 500 Diversity Owned Companies in America", and others. Its research has been recognized and published by Forbes Magazine, Business Week and thousands of other print and internet publications. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. It is a leading provider of Supplier Diversity management tools and has the most widely distributed Diversity magazine in the United States. DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. Founded in 1980.
For additional information, please contact:
Diane Gascon
HealthMart Supply Inc.
1 360 384 4254 x1003
dianekg@health-mart.com
Seasonal allergies
can lead to more problems
Whether you call it hay fever, rose fever, or allergic rhinitis,
a runny nose and itchy eyes are a sure sign of spring.
For millions of seasonal allergy sufferers, spring can be a miserable
season. Deciding to "tough it out" and forego treatment
or reaching for an over-the-counter product can diminish quality
of life and, even worse, predispose sufferers to chronic respiratory
disorder. Researchers are now confirming that chronic respiratory
disorders such as sinus infections and asthma are directly linked
to allergies.
A visit to the doctor can be an invaluable first step toward
effective allergy control. Tests can determine what triggers
the allergies, and effective medication to control their symptoms
can be determined.
The Task Force on Allergic Disorders has compiled the first summary
of information from 21 diverse health-professional organizations
on the care of patients with allergic disorders. The Allergy
Report offers standardized recommendations for diagnosis and
treatment, while recognizing the connection between allergies
and asthma, sinusitis, and middle-ear disease.
The information is primarily for doctors, insurance companies,
and HMOs, but anyone interested can get the information over
the Internet at www.aaaai.org.
Or individuals can contact the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma
and Immunology at (800) 822-2762 for more information
Good news about gray matter
For many years, doctors thought the brain matured in the first
years of life and didn't change much after that. But new discoveries
show that the brain continually reorganizes itself. Called "neuroplasticity,"
it means you create your brain from the input you get, and you
can continually re-create and upgrade it, according to the Center
for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University
in Newark, N.J.
In addition to learning implications, doctors may be able to
use these discoveries to relieve depression, rehabilitate stroke
victims, and treat Alzheimer's disease.
New sickle-cell treatment
Sickle-cell anemia is an inherited disorder in which red blood
cells take on a sickle shape. The result is painful and usually
fatal. Now doctors at Emory University in Atlanta have cured
a 13-year-old boy by transplanting stem cells from the cord blood
of a newborn infant. The patient had to first undergo nine days
of chemotherapy to kill the source of his sickled blood cells
and neutralize his immune system so it would accept the new cells.
He was hospitalized several times in the following year, but
by year-end the patient was pronounced cured and well.
Spinal compression fractures
A new procedure for spinal compression fractures relieves pain
and stabilizes the backbone. Vertebroplasty involves injecting
bone cement into fractured vertebrae. It's an outpatient treatment.
Lyme time comes again
Cases of Lyme disease have increased dramatically, reports the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The disease, which is carried and communicated by tick bites,
is spreading geographically here and around the world. While
most U.S. cases are reported in the Northeast and upper Midwest,
it has been found in 48 states and is considerably underreported
in many areas of the country. Because it can imitate such illnesses
as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, it is difficult
to detect. And blood tests may not always confirm its presence.
Though people can be infected with Lyme disease at any time of
year, the majority of cases occur from late spring through summer.
The disease starts with a skin rash, and if untreated may spread
to the joints, nervous system, heart, and eyes.
In regions where the incidence is high, vaccines are recommended
for at-risk persons aged 15 to 70.
Those who are not often in these areas may get some protection
from wearing a long-sleeved shirt and long pants tucked into
socks. The clothing should be washed upon returning from a wooded
area.
Early treatment is most successful. Symptoms include a spreading
rash at the site of a tick bite, fever and/or chills, headache,
and aching of muscles or joints.
Lyme disease cannot be caught from another person.
Sugar has its place, but in small
amounts
Dietitians today say that no food should be entirely off limits,
but some foods should be eaten judiciously. Sugar is one of these.
Refined sugar and other simple carbohydrates are turned into
glucose very rapidly. They quickly can cause you to have a high
"glycemic index."
The pancreas responds to an elevated glucose level by releasing
large quantities of insulin, which can cause a couple of problems.
First, insulin stimulates the liver to make triglycerides, a
form of fat that is toxic to the heart and as dangerous as high
cholesterol levels.
Second, over the long term, a high-sugar diet can lead to pancreatic
"burnout," an inability to keep up with the body's
demand for insulin. This reduces your ability to keep blood sugar
under control.
Dr. Richard Podell, author of The G-Index Diet (Warner), says
elevated levels of insulin can be especially dangerous for people
who suffer from insulin resistance, a "prediabetic"
condition. For them, a meal or snack forces the pancreas to produce
insulin at two or more times the level that would ordinarily
be required. And a diet rich in high-glycemic foods promotes
obesity, which promotes insulin resistance.
All of us would be healthier if we cut back on refined sugar
and other high-glycemic foods such as candy and cookies. High-glycemic
vegetables include potatoes, white rice, carrots, beets, and
corn. Focus instead on low-glycemic foods such as pasta, whole
grains, peas, beans, and broccoli.
Sugar in liquor is absorbed more slowly when drinks are consumed
with food. Then they have a smaller effect on insulin levels. |
