Charity News from Monday, Apr. 21, 2003Parents of Children with Mental Illness Sacrifice Custody for Needed CareNational Mental Health Association | One shudders to think that in America the parents of a child who has a mental illness would be forced to relinquish custody in order to get their child needed mental health services. Unfortunately, this heartbreaking sacrifice is all too common. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital opens new facility for manufacturing investigative drugs and vaccines St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Next month St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will become the only pediatric cancer research center in the United States to open a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) facility for producing vaccines, drugs, proteins and other biological products. St. Jude researchers use DNA chips to determine how leukemia cells respond to different drug treatments St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | The researchers say this finding is a significant step in the emerging field of pharmacogenomics—the study of a person's entire set of genes in order to determine which ones control that individual's response to drug therapy. A Million Trees Planted for Earth Day American Forests | American Forests has reached its goal of planting a million trees for Earth Day. The "Million Trees for Earth Day" campaign, urged organizations across the United States to help plant trees to celebrate Earth Day, April 22nd. Farnsworth Named Senior VP at Stamford-Bound AmeriCares AmeriCares Foundation | Peter Farnsworth of New Canaan has been named senior vice president of finance and technology at AmeriCares, the international humanitarian aid organization which is moving its headquarters to Hamilton Avenue in Stamford Sept. 1.
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