Charity News from Thursday, Oct. 5, 2000First Annual Rock N Race to Fight Colorectal Cancer on October 8, 2000Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation | Other beneficiaries include: The Colorectal Cancer Network, DC General Hospital, The Eric Davis Foundation, Greater Washington Coalition for Cancer Survivorship; Washington Hospital Cancer Center Institute; Howard University Cancer Center; ... The Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study National Cancer Institute | The Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study (PCOS) was initiated in 1994 by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to look at the impact that treatments for primary prostate cancer have on the quality of life of patients. Health outcomes after... American Cancer Society Calls for National Tobacco-Control Legislation to Protect the Health of All Americans American Cancer Society | The American Cancer Society, the nation's leading voluntary health organization, today told Congress that the 1998 Master State Settlement Agreement (MSA) with the tobacco industry is not a "magic bullet," with only 15 states to date allocating ... Gene Found for Rare Eye Disease Afflicting Small North Carolina Tribe of American Indians Duke University Medical Center | Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have discovered that a gene on chromosome 4 is responsible for hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis (HBID), a rare eye disease found predominantly in Native Americans in North Carolina. Duke Researchers Find Specific Genetic Link to Broad Spectrum of Parkinson's Disease Cases Duke University Medical Center | Parkinson's disease researchers at Duke University Medical Center have demonstrated for the first time that alteration of a specific gene on chromosome 6 appears to contribute to both the common late-onset and rarer, early-onset form of the disease.
|
|
