InTouch Health Receives $6 Million Investment from iRobot Corp.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- InTouch Technologies, Inc. (dba. InTouch Health), a leading provider of acute healthcare remote presence solutions, announced today that iRobot Corp., a leader in delivering robot technology-based solutions, has made a $6 million investment in the Company.

InTouch Health and iRobot have a joint development and licensing agreement, formalized in July 2011, to explore opportunities for healthcare applications of robotic technology by uniting complementary expertise and technologies across each company’s intellectual property portfolio. InTouch Health’s ten years of experience in robotic telemedicine solutions coupled with iRobot’s expertise in robot navigation, mobility and manipulation can prove to be a potent combination in developing purpose-built robots for the healthcare industry. This collaboration will allow InTouch Health to advance its healthcare-centric robotic platform to a new level of mobility and utility, which will allow for even greater ease of use by clinicians.

“As evident from the demonstrations of its Ava robotic platform, iRobot is the industry leader in robot navigation, mobility and manipulation,” said Yulun Wang, Chairman and CEO of InTouch Health. “Working together, InTouch Health and iRobot will pioneer superior remote presence in healthcare settings, providing anytime/anywhere patient care in hospital ED’s, ICU’s, patient wards, and operating and procedure rooms.”

“With over 400 hospitals in the U.S. and around the world utilizing its remote presence products, InTouch Health is in a very unique position in the healthcare field with its FDA-cleared telemedicine devices,” said Colin Angle, Chairman and CEO of iRobot. “iRobot’s investment in InTouch Health will further align these two leaders, creating a best of breed partnership that will develop robots for remote presence healthcare and assistive technologies for the elderly.”

About InTouch Health

InTouch Health provides comprehensive telemedicine solutions and expertise that enable physicians to perform real-time consults with patients. Through a single portal, physicians can access InTouch Health’s purpose-built, FDA-cleared remote presence (“RP”) devices to provide care anywhere across the healthcare continuum: EDs, ICUs, procedure rooms, patient wards, clinics, ambulances, and homes. The InTouch Health Remote Presence telemedicine network is powered through its SureCONNECT® cloud-based infrastructure providing unparalleled connection quality and reliability, interoperability, workflow imaging and documentation, and service and support. Wherever access to medical expertise is limited, InTouch Health's Remote Presence telemedicine solutions can effectively extend the physician's reach to manage patient care, thereby removing critical time and distance barriers.

The Company has more than 400 hospital locations on six continents enrolled in its Remote Presence network for the delivery of telemedicine services such as stroke, critical care, cardiology, trauma, pediatrics, neonatology, mental health, language translation, clinical education and surgical/procedure mentoring. For more information about InTouch Health, please visit www.intouchhealth.com.

About iRobot Corp.

iRobot designs and builds robots that make a difference. The company’s home robots help people find smarter ways to clean, and its government and industrial robots protect those in harm’s way. iRobot’s consumer and military robots feature iRobot Aware® robot intelligence systems, proprietary technology incorporating advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. For more information about iRobot, please visit www.irobot.com.

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On Call: February Dental Health Month

February is children's dental health month, and local medical professionals are educating families on the importance of dental care.

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Juice Fasting - Detox to Jump-Start Weight Loss

I'm doing a 10-day juice fast in order to "reprogram" my body, if you will, to craving and liking raw foods again. I am especially interested in using this juice fast to tackle some of my deeper emotional attachments to food and give my health a boost - which has been suffering due to all the junk food I've been eating. It was the crap foods that made me gain 15 lbs, and I hope to lose those 15 plus more by rejecting crappy foods from now on.

Learn more and see recipes at my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/antishayfanpage

Highest weight: 230 lbs
Last Weigh-In: ~175 lbs
TOTAL Lost: 55 lbs

Dream goal weight: 155 lbs

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Day 22 - Juice Fast/Weight Loss

This weekend was a blast! Complete with some swimming and some fire. Who could ask for more!? The results for our 3rd week is included as well as a new challenge for our friends out there, YOU... so listen in to the end for the details.

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Health Management Associates, Inc. to Present at the UBS 22nd Annual Global Healthcare Services Conference

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE:HMA - News) announced today that its management will present at the UBS 22nd Annual Global Healthcare Services Conference to be held February 7-8, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City.

Health Management’s senior leaders will present on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM ET. The presentation will be webcast live over the Internet via Health Management's website (http://www.hma.com). Listeners are encouraged to go to the Investor Relations section of Health Management's website approximately five minutes prior to the event to register and download any necessary media player software.

Health Management enables America’s best local health care by providing the people, processes, capital and expertise necessary for its hospital and physician partners to fulfill their local missions of delivering superior health care services. Health Management, through its subsidiaries, operates 66 hospitals, with approximately 10,400 licensed beds located throughout the United States.

All references to “Health Management,” “HMA” or the “Company” used in this release refer to Health Management Associates, Inc. and its affiliates.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions and are identified by words such as "expects," "estimates," "projects," "anticipates," "believes," "plans," "could" and other similar words. All statements addressing operating performance, events or developments that Health Management Associates, Inc. expects or anticipates will occur in the future, including but not limited to incurrence of indebtedness, projections of revenue, income or loss, capital expenditures, earnings per share, debt structure, bad debt expense, capital structure, repayment of indebtedness, other financial items and operating statistics, statements regarding the plans and objectives of management for future operations, innovations, or market service development, statements regarding acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and other proposed or contemplated transactions (including but not limited to statements regarding the potential for future acquisitions and perceived benefits of acquisitions), statements of future economic performance, statements regarding the effects and/or interpretations of recently enacted or future health care laws and regulations, statements of the assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing statements, and other statements which are other than statements of historical fact, are considered to be "forward-looking statements."

Because they are forward-looking, such statements should be evaluated in light of important risk factors and uncertainties. These risk factors and uncertainties are more fully described in Health Management Associates, Inc.'s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, under the headings entitled "Risk Factors." Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of Health Management Associates, Inc.'s underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could vary materially from those currently anticipated. In addition, undue reliance should not be placed on Health Management Associates, Inc.'s forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, Health Management Associates, Inc. disclaims any obligation to update its risk factors or to publicly announce updates to the forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect new information, future events or other developments.

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How To Lose Weight - How to Start - Healthy Weight Loss - Losing Weight The Hard Way Antishay Q&A

Why not really DO THIS for yourself this time...
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I have lost 70 lbs and kept it off by working on my mind, and by eating right and exercising of course. I have HUNDREDS of helpful videos on health and weight loss that are available here on YouTube.

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How do I mold my mind to attain success? How do I lose weight?

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There is No Try:
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There is No Fail:
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FASTING for WEIGHT LOSS- The Safest Way to NOT Eat and Lose Weight (Ramadan)

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Everybody loves a SLINKY! And getting lean. This is a vid by special request for all my Muslim brothers and sisters. I'm not Muslim but its Ramadan, which means not eating for 16 hours a day. But even if you aren't Muslim you're gonna learn something because today I'm going to talk about one of the most controversial topics: intermittent fasting. Or not eating for either 16-24 hours to lose weight.

Heres what you'd do. You'd eat in the morning, fast for 16 hours and eat again at night. Do NOT expect to gain muscle over the 30 days, your best bet is to maintain your muscle while dropping fat.

For training I'd do full body work outs minimum three times per week, with two more optional days to work on areas you'd like to improve. Cardio should be minimal to not go catabolic. But if you insist on cardio do 20 minutes 3 times per week upon first waking.

BEST Time to TRAIN: BEFORE you break your fast at night.

As WHAT you should eat, its in the description. Basically I'd have guys at about 1800 calories and women at 1300 calories. The sample calories will ensure slow digestion of your nutrients so you have fuel throughout the rest of the day.

Male: Eat 1800 calories
MORNING: 100 grams protein 70 grams carbs 25 grams fat
EXAMPLE: 2 Chicken Breasts, 1 medium sweet potato, 1 fruit 2 Eggs, with 1 tablespoon of oil used to cook. Eat with green veggies.

NIGHT: 100 grams protein 30 grams carbs 35 grams fat
EXAMPLE: ½ cup cooked lentils, 8 ounces of LEAN meat (like a steak) 4 eggs, cooked with 1 tablespoon of oil. Eat with green veggies

Female: Eat 1300 calories
MORNING: 80 grams protein 75 grams carbs 10 grams fat
EXAMPLE: Two chicken breast baked, one piece of fruit with a medium sweet potato and a piece of fruit)

NIGHT: 75 grams protein 30 grams fat
EXAMPLE: JUMBO omelette (4 whole eggs, 8 egg whites, with green veggies and whatever veggies cooked in 1 tablespoon of oil)

IF is popular now because its simple, can work for SOME people and sounds cool. Seriously. But I'd only use it rarely, if at all. Why? Because it doesn't teach the proper nutritional habits and some people aren't built for this type of eating.

In fact I don't recommend this to people with
gut problems
eating disorders
blood sugar issues
slow metabolism
looking for the latest IT thing
most women
or beginners

Remember, always choose the best option for YOU and YOUR body, don't just listen to what people say. INCLUDING ME.

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Sencha Tea

Green tea has been appreciated by healthy-minded individuals worldwide. This is down to its proven benefits inside the human body. You can now go online and buy bottled green teas or go to the grocery store and buy a wide variety of dried green teas for you to prepare at home. Among the most tasty and satisfying green teas currently available is Japanese tea known as Sencha tea.

This tea is really popular in China and has a noticeable rolled or curled shape which comes from the way it is processed and dried. The picked leaves are subjected to a steaming process before being rolled, shaped correctly, and then are laid out to dry. This makes the curled appearance that the majority of people associate with Sencha tea. This method of preparing the leaves differs from green teas produced elsewhere and is one of the reasons for the delicious flavour that is associated with Sencha tea.

When purchasing Sencha tea you will hear terms like "first flush" and "second flush". This used as an advertising method for many Sencha tea suppliers because these directly affects the colouring and flavour of the tea. The talk of different flushes is because of the fact that the tea plants used for Sencha tea can be harvested at different times during the year. In the East, it is believed that the best tasting sencha are harvested from the first flush of the year, hence the fact that those teas will become marked as "first flush" Sencha.

All round the world you can find Sencha tea on sale as either first or second flush. These early harvested tea leaves should produce a more golden green color along with the delicious flavour for which this type of tea has become recognised

Japanese teas like Sencha are known for their high amounts of polyphenols, which are very beneficial to the body. They work along with antioxidants to rid the body of harmful toxins that cause disease and to help cut deadly diseases including cancer.

Sencha tea is proven to be completely natural and safe. You can take Sencha tea at home as regularly as you like without being concerned about dangerous side effects. Sencha tea has a wonderful taste and can easily be bought online from a variety of different manufacturers.

One supplier is Tava Tea, they have put Sencha in their unique formulation, and offer the ultimate health benefits that only a top flight tea like Tava Tea can provide.

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Lose Weight Fast in 2 Weeks? I'm Mad! Lose Weight Now-22 Lbs in 2 Weeks

http://conquerweightloss.info/ - Mad way to lose weight fast in 2 weeks and keep losing weight fast for weeks to follow. But, do not go to the website if you don't want to lose fat fast and become attractive and healthy THE EASY WAY!

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