Charity News from Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2003NMHA to Honor Late Sen. Paul Wellstone with “Into The Light” AwardNational Mental Health Association | The National Mental Health Association will pay tribute to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone with its "Into the Light" award. Wellstone will be honored for bringing mental health and mental illness to the forefront of our nation's public health agenda. Philip Burguières Will Be Honored for Mental Health Advocacy National Mental Health Association | The National Mental Health Association will honor Philip Burguières, vice chairman of the Houston Texans, with the William Styron Award on Wednesday, June 4, at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Reducing stroke risk in African Americans St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | African-American children who have siblings with sickle cell disease (SCD) are more likely to have abnormal, "twisted" arteries in the brain, which may lead to an elevated risk of stroke in adulthood. Reprogramming genetic material to reverse cancer St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Nuclei removed from mouse brain tumor cells and transplanted into mouse eggs whose own nuclei have been removed, give rise to cloned embryos with normal tissues, even though the mutations causing the cancer are still present.
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