Charity News from Friday, Apr. 14, 2000Legislation to Reduce Animal Testing Praised by American Humane AssociationAmerican Humane Association | The American Humane Association today praised the House introduction of legislation designed to reduce the number of animal tests performed each year. The legislation, introduced last night by Representatives Ken Calvert (R-CA) and Tom Lantos (D-... Hendersonville Woman Makes $2 Million Commitment to Duke for Alzheimer's Research Duke University Medical Center | Hendersonville businesswoman Aileen Todd, whose husband battled Alzheimer's disease for 15 years, has made a $2 million commitment to the Deane Laboratories at Duke University Medical Center to support Alzheimer's disease research. People with Autism and Asperger Syndrome Process Faces as Objects, Yale Study of Brain Abnormalities Finds Yale School of Medicine | Yale researchers have for the first time used functional MRI to study brain organization in persons with autism and Asperger Syndrome and found that they perceive faces as if they were objects.
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