Kellogg's, for instance, promotes its cereal brand, Special K, in co-productions with the Discovery Health Channel in America.
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Discovery will also contribute Discovery Health, replacing it with OWN when the new network goes live on Jan. 1.
Scott never really left the health care world after HCA. He helped invest in a predecessor to the Discovery Health cable channel.
He was looking for something compelling to do with the little-watched Discovery Health network, which is in about 74 million U.S. homes, according to media researcher SNL Kagan.
Derek Baine, a senior analyst at media research firm SNL Kagan, says OWN's ratings have sometimes been lower than the ratings for the Discovery Health channel, which preceded OWN on the same channel number.
On many cable systems, the former Discovery Health dwells in the channel wilderness, making it hard for viewers to find, to the point that Winfrey herself has resorted to begging viewers to tune in.
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The next explosion comes from Tim Noakes, the Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Capetown in a commentary ( Role of hydration in health and exercise) in which his take can succinctly be summarized as, if you get thirsty you should drink and that over-hydration is a much more common and dangerous risk to the athlete than dehydration.
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Also poised to gain: the network's bottom line. (As a 50% owner and its namesake, there are significant incentives for the self-made billionaire as well.) Despite its reach--OWN is a re-branding of an already established cable service, Discovery Health Channel, so it counts some 75 million in its current subscriber base--it earns only 13 cents per subscriber in its current non-Winfrey form, according to industry research firm SNL Kagan.
Key findings from the quit4u evaluation report were released to health professionals at Discovery Point in Dundee.
While authorities said there is no immediate cause for health concerns, the discovery was a new shock to an industry already reeling from a bombshell last month, when Irish investigators found horse and pig DNA in numerous hamburger products.
The National Public Health Service for Wales made the discovery after carrying out tests on samples collected at Caereinion High School, near Welshpool.
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Meanwhile, some Fabryzyme patients filed a so-called march-in petition with the National Institutes of Health, which funded the original Fabrazyme discovery, in hopes of securing permission to pursue their own alternative for making a medication.
Earlier, a teaching union said it asked the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to investigate the discovery of asbestos at Cwmcarn.
Add to this discovery of next-generation medicines that will be critical to addressing health care challenges both here at home and abroad.
's Fox channels, but Fox has a health network--and so does Liberty's ally, Discovery.
Experts with Conservation International argue that the discovery is particularly significant since amphibians serve as an accurate gauge of an area's ecological health.
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