Charity News from Friday, Mar. 7, 2003"Glowing" bacteria help St. Jude researchers show how an anti-flu-virus drug may prevent deadly bacterial pneumoniaSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Viral enzyme "clear cuts" forest of protective molecules on lung cells in mice; blocking that enzyme reduces illness and incidence of death from subsequent infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae. St. Jude faculty member to receive prestigious award for cancer discoveries and research St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Charles Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Genetics & Tumor Cell Biology Department at St. Jude and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , is one of two scientists world wide to receive the award. Utah Schools Get New Tool To Keep Kids Safer On Internet National Center for Missing and Exploited Children | You may not know "Meet-Me Mack" or "Potty-Mouth Pete." But soon your children will meet these make-believe characters and learn from them about the very real dangers on the Internet. The animated characters are part of an Internet safety curriculum. Displaced in Congo in Need of Immediate Aid Catholic Relief Services | Catholic Relief Services today announced plans to assist more than 30,000 people displaced by fighting in the Lomami River Valley in central Democratic Republic of the Congo. The area has been cut off from the capital, Kinshasa, since the war began. Cancer Experts Combat Misinformation About Carbs with "Grass-Roots" Approach American Institute for Cancer Research | The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) says the widespread "all or nothing" approach to carbohydrates, chiefly inspired by misreadings of popular diets, is simply too simplistic and potentially dangerous.
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