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The Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA) Announces 2011 Title Sponsors for the HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit

ATLANTA, GA –The Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA) is proud to present an outstanding list of 2011 Title Sponsors for the upcoming HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit in Atlanta. The 2011 HTAA Summit Title Sponsors are Take Care Health Systems, a Walgreens Health and Wellness Company; Abbott; Lindora Clinic, America's leading clinical weight management provider; MinuteClinic, the walk-in medical clinic in CVS/pharmacy; and Novo Nordisk.

The HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit is the trucking industry’s premiere health and wellness event and the number one source of education and resources aimed at improving the health of our nation’s professional driver population. Each year the HTAA invites trucking fleet Safety Directors, Human Resources Directors, Recruitment & Retention Managers and other trucking fleet executives and industry leaders to attend the Summit and receive information and resources to help drivers get healthy and live longer lives.

“We’d like to thank our Title Sponsors for joining the HTAA’s efforts to improve the health of the trucking industry,” says Brett Blowers, Spokesman for the HTAA. “Our Title Sponsors have the ability to bring tremendous resources to bear on helping us improve the health and wellness of our nation’s professional driver population. Making the numerous beneficial programs and services provided by these companies available to trucking fleets and associations is one of the many functions the HTAA performs for the trucking industry in our ongoing efforts to help drivers get healthy and live longer lives.”

The 2011 HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit will be held March 1-3 at the world famous Omni Hotel at CNN Center, located at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2011 event will feature sessions on Obesity & Weight Loss, Sleep Disorders, Hypertension & Heart Health, Smoking Cessation, and Diabetes to name a few. Featured speakers include Dr. Benisse Lester, FMCSA Chief Medical Officer, and an all-star cast of nationally recognized experts in health, wellness, and nutrition.

“Once again, we have invited trucking fleet Safety Directors and HR Directors to attend the Healthy Trucking Summit free of charge,“ says Blowers, “and we have extended a special invitation to the executives of the many state trucking associations. As the Health and Wellness Authority of the Trucking Industry the HTAA considers it to be our responsibility to provide this wealth of resources to the men and women who care about helping our nation’s driver population get healthy.”

About the Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA):
The Healthy Trucking Association of America was established as a result of alarming statistics concerning the unhealthiness of the professional truck driver population. Current statistics show that over-the-road professionals have an average life expectancy of less than 61 years and exhibit well above average occurrences of a wide variety of ailments and conditions, including high blood pressure, sleep apnea and obesity to name a few. The HTAA offers programs to improve the health of professional drivers and has quickly evolved into the leading authority on driver health and wellness issues. For more information, please visit HealthyTruck.org .

About Take Care Health Systems:
Take Care Health Systems (www.takecarehealthsystem.com ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG) and part of Walgreens Health and Wellness division, is the largest and most comprehensive manager of worksite health and wellness centers and convenient care clinics in the country. TCHS is comprised of Take Care Consumer Solutions (www.takecarehealth.com ) and Take Care Health Employer Solutions (www.takecareemployersolutions.com ). Take Care Consumer Solutions manages Take Care Clinics at select Walgreens drugstores throughout the country. Patient care at each of the Take Care Clinics is provided by Take Care Health Services, an independently owned state professional corporation established in each market. Take Care Health Employer Solutions manages primary care, health and wellness, occupational health, pharmacy and fitness centers at large employer campuses. Combined, Take Care Health Systems manages more than 700 worksite and retail health care centers.

About Abbott:
Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices and diagnostics. The company employs nearly 90,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries.

About Lindora Clinic:
Lindora Clinic, America’s leading clinical weight management provider, has partnered with HTAA to improve the health and lives of the U.S. trucking community. Offering its innovative Lean for Life ® On the Road program with support options in-clinic, online and by phone, Lindora Clinic is committed to empowering drivers and their families to lose weight, improve their health, retain their livelihood, increase their life expectancy, and reduce healthcare costs. The program is medically based, clinically proven and results-oriented, and provides the education, motivation, and structure to support drivers to lose weight rapidly and safely, and reduce their health risks. Founded in 1971 by Marshall Stamper, M.D., Lindora operates 44 Southern California clinic locations. For more information, call 1.800.LINDORA (ask for Linda Moran) or visit lindora.com .

About MinuteClinic, the walk-in medical clinic in CVS/pharmacy:
CVS Caremark's MinuteClinic is the largest provider of convenient walk-in retail medical clinics in the United States. We provide high quality, affordable, health care services in more than 500 select CVS/pharmacy locations in 26 states and the District of Columbia and have announced plans to open 100 new clinics a year through 2015.

Each MinuteClinic is staffed by certified family nurse practitioners and physician assistants trained to diagnose, treat and write prescriptions when clinically appropriate. We treat common family illnesses and injuries; administer vaccinations; and provide screenings, physicals and monitoring for chronic conditions. With nearly 9 million patient visits, we are proud of our 95% customer satisfaction rating.

MinuteClinic is open 7 days a week, including evenings and weekends. No appointment is necessary. We accept most insurance plans; cash, checks, and credit cards are also welcome. For more information, please visit www.minuteclinic.com .

MEDIA CONTACT:
Rena Cosby
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