Charity News from Friday, Aug. 10, 2001

Questions and Answers: SELECT (Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial)
National Cancer Institute | SELECT stands for the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, which is a clinical trial to see if one or both of these dietary supplements prevent prostate cancer in men. After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of ...

Harris County Head Start Programs Begin Enrollment For 2001 - 2002 School Year
Neighborhood Centers | Head Start is a federally funded pre-school program designed to serve three- to four-year-old children before they begin Kindergarten. Head Start programs also provide social services such as assistance with annual medical and dental exams for ...

Genetic discovery will aid diagnosis of rare childhood cancer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Stephan Morris, M.D., and Zhigui Ma, M.D., Ph.D., of Memphis' St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Johann Hitzler, M.D., of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children led the study. The genetic abnormality is likely a factor in the onset of acute ...

Great American Smokeout
American Cancer Society | Nov. 15, 2001, the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout will be 25 years old. said Dileep G. Bal, MD, MS, MPH, national president of the American Cancer Society.

 

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