Charity News from Monday, Jan. 10, 2000

American Jewish Committee Initiatives AimTo Revive Efforts to Solve Wallenberg Mystery
American Jewish Committee | The American Jewish Committee, through an ad in The New York Times and the release of a new publication, is calling for a renewed effort to solve the 55-year old mystery of Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance. Wallenberg was employed by the U.S. War...

Country music industry unites to help children of St. Jude
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | "Country Cares" grew out of the inspiration of ALABAMA's Owen, who challenged the country music industry to support St. Jude at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville in 1989. St. Jude and the country radio industry work together with some of the...

Breakthrough in Protein Folding Simulation for Anti-Cancer Drug Design Announced by National Foundation for Cancer Research
National Foundation for Cancer Research | Dr. Harold A. Scheraga, Project Director for the National Foundation for Cancer Research and Todd Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Cornell University has discovered an answer to the "protein folding problem" which has eluded scientists for years.

Growing Blood Vessels Around Clots in Leg Arteries may Treat Painful Walking
Duke University Medical Center | Like hearts, legs can also suffer from "attacks" when too little blood flows through clogged and narrowed arteries. And like angina in a heart, this lack of oxygen-rich blood to muscles that need it produces pain.

 

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