Charity News from Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2003TUMS® and the March of Dimes Team Up to Get Mothers and Babies Off to a Healthy StartMarch of Dimes | TUMS®, the #1 doctor recommended calcium supplement, today announced its partnership with the March of Dimes to help educate women of childbearing age about their special nutritional needs. Sale of Rescued Artists' Works Marks IRC's 70th Anniversary International Rescue Committee | As the IRC marks its 70th anniversary of assisting refugees, we are renewing efforts to sell a portfolio of lithographs by prominent refugee artists rescued by the IRC during the second World War. Focus on the Family Counters "Gay Pride" Message Focus on the Family | While gay-affirming organizations in the Portland area make plans to celebrate Gay Pride Month, Focus on the Family is preparing its own celebration — of the truth that homosexuality is preventable and treatable. Local Affiliates of America's Second Harvest Host Events in Support of National Hunger Awareness Day America's Second Harvest | Across the country, local food banks and food-rescue organizations of America's Second Harvest have mobilized their supporters to focus the nation's attention on the severe but solvable problem of domestic hunger and its impact on our children. Motor Nerve Cell "Factory" Findings May Elicit Treatments for Spinal Cord Injury, Disease Salk Institute for Biological Studies | Manufacturing motor nerve cells may someday be possible to help restore function in victims of spinal cord injury or such diseases of motion as Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease or post-polio syndrome, a Salk Institute research study has found.
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