Charity News from Thursday, Jul. 27, 2000Come Discover Sailing with the Sound Sailing Center and the Sunset Grill in a Benefit Sail for AmeriCares HomeFrontAmeriCares Foundation | AmeriCares, the international and national disaster relief organization, is pleased to announce that the Sound Sailing Center and the Sunset Grill will be sponsoring a benefit "Sail" for AmeriCares HomeFront. Sound Sailing Center is an US Sailing ... Former Research Baboons ... Free At Last! Animal Protection Institute | What: For the first time in the United States, nine male former research baboons will be released into a five acre free-ranging enclosure at the Animal Protection Institute's (API) Texas Snow Monkey Sanctuary. The Texas Snow Monkey Sanctuary of ... The Cancer Research Foundation Of America And Fox Chase Cancer Center Offer Free Mammograms And PSA Testing To Delegates, Spouses And Politicalfest Attendees During The RNC Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation | To further their mission of early cancer detection, the Cancer Research Foundation of America and Fox Chase Cancer Center will provide delegates, their spouses and PoliticalFest attendees the opportunity to get free cancer screenings during the ... STAR Enrolls 6,139 Women in First Year; 16,000 More Women at Increased Risk of Breast Cancer Sought National Cancer Institute | STAR is designed to determine whether the osteoporosis prevention and treatment drug raloxifene (Evista®) is as effective as tamoxifen (Nolvadex®) in reducing breast cancer risk. In 1998, tamoxifen was shown to reduce the chance of developing ... ABC's Johnson Shares Perspectives On Medicine National Youth Leadership Forum | BOSTON - Dr. Tim Johnson, medical editor for ABC News today welcomed more than 350 high school students attending the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (NYLF/MED) to Boston to discuss the sometimes-tenuous relationship between the media ... Humanized Mouse To Become Basic Tool To Test Drug-Drug Interactions Salk Institute for Biological Studies | The transgenic or so-called "humanized" mouse should become a fundamental tool used by the pharmaceutical industry to test for potential drug-drug interaction and tolerance in a human-like system that's built into an animal. Genetic Paradox: Gene Implicated in Alzheimer's Disease Appears to Protect Kidneys of Heart Surgery Patients Duke University Medical Center | While the use of bypass surgery over the past 30 years has saved millions of patients with clogged coronary arteries, physicians have noticed a disturbing trend - up to 8% of these heart patients will suffer impairment of kidney function.
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