Charity News from Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001Let T.G.I.Friday's Know YOU Want Free Farmed Certified Products!American Humane Association | Let T.G.I.Friday's Know YOU Want Free Farmed Certified Products! If you live in Tampa, Philadelphia, or Washington, DC/Virginia, here's your chance to try out a Free Farmed certified product! AJC Donates $25,000 for El Slavador Eartquake Relief American Jewish Committee | The American Jewish Committee today donated $25,000 to aid relief efforts in El Salvador following the devastating earthquake over the weekend. The contribution comes from AJC's Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Humanitarian Fund, which was ... Americans Concerned about Poverty--when Confronted with it Catholic Campaign for Human Development | That's the conclusion drawn from the Poverty Pulse Survey released in early January as part of Poverty in America Awareness Month. The Poverty Pulse survey was conducted nationwide on behalf of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), ... Jack Sobel, CMC's Director of Ecosystems Statement on President Clinton's Announcement of the U.S. Virgin Islands National Monument The Ocean Conservancy | The new USVI Coral Reef National Monument and expansion of the existing Buck Island National Monument should contribute to an integrated and comprehensive approach to conserving the islands' marine resources, developing an effective network of ... Compassion International Aids El Salvador Through Presidential Appointment For Relief Compassion International | COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., January 18, 2001- El Salvador President Francisco Flores has appointed the Conesal as the evangelical Christian relief network charged with coordinating relief efforts by Compassion and more than 50 international Christian... NIH Course on Human Research Protections Goes Online National Cancer Institute | Developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the web-based course offers continuing medical education (CME) credit for physicians and contact hours for nurses and other members of research teams. ... IDEC Pharmaceuticals and GENENTECH to support American Cancer Society Fellowship program; Inaugurated in Honor of Ronald Levy, MD, ACS Research Professor American Cancer Society | The American Cancer Society, the nation's leading voluntary health agency, announced today that IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. and Genentech, Inc. will sponsor a scientific research fellowship program, in honor of Ronald Levy, MD. Dr. Levy is the ... Genetic Mutation Identified that Results in Aggressive, Drug Resistant Cancers Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | What makes one patient's cancer more aggressive than another? Why does a patient's cancer develop resistance to a previously effective chemotherapy drug? A genetic mutation of the MAD2 protein may provide the answer to both of these questions. Yale Researcher Finds New Clue to What Blocks Nerve Fibers from Regrowing Following Spinal Cord Injury or Disease Yale School of Medicine | Researchers are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in a pathway that prevents axon regeneration, a Yale researcher says.
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