Charity News from Friday, Sep. 15, 2000

October is National Breast Cancer Month - Free Brochure Helps Women Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer
American Institute for Cancer Research | The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is offering a free brochure, Reducing Your Risk of Breast Cancer, that provides guidelines and tips on how to control dietary and other lifestyle factors that affect a woman's risk for breast ...

One Church, One Child Hosts Annual National Convention
Gladney Center for Adoption | Fort Worth, Texas --- One Church, One Child of Texas, Inc. hosts their Annual National Convention, September 26 - 29 in Arlington, Texas at the Hilton in Arlington. Adoption specialists, children's advocates and Texas' own prominent pastors will ...

$1 Trillion Landmark and 20 Years of Wish Granting Make Winning Combination
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | Phoenix — (September 15, 2000) — In celebration of passing the $1 trillion mark in client assets, The Charles Schwab Corporation has joined forces with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help make wishes come true for 110 children with life-threatening...

St. Jude discovers cellular vehicle that transports pneumonia
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Seeking strategies for an effective vaccine, a team of researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospitalƒ - led by Elaine Tuomanen, M.D. - studied how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae traffics from the throat to the blood stream. St. ...

Discovery Channel Injects Real Life into New Hospital Series
Duke University Medical Center | A young woman comes to the hospital with a problem pregnancy; her unborn baby must undergo heart surgery immediately following its birth. A man who has been told he has less than two years to live must have a second surgery to remove a brain tumor.

 

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