Charity News from Tuesday, Jul. 8, 2003Ducks Unlimited Receives Honors for Accomplishments With GIS TechnologyDucks Unlimited | Ducks Unlimited (DU) will be honored on July 10, 2003, with a Special Achievement in GIS award from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) software. Three Months After Fall, Baghdad Still Suffers CARE | July 9 marks the three-month anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, but security and essential services, such as electricity and water, still have not been restored to pre-war levels. American Brain Tumor Association awards summer fellowship at St. Jude St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) has awarded a Brain Tumor Research Fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to medical student Meredith Allen. St. Jude wins Best Practices Award St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received top honors at Bio-IT World, Inc.'s 2003 Best Practices Awards, held June 23 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Severe Childhood Asthma: What Are We Missing? National Jewish Medical and Research Center | Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center highlight significant shortcomings in the prevailing model of severe asthma in an article published in the July issue of Chest. US "Gives With One Hand, Takes With The Other" In Africa Oxfam-America | As President Bush prepares to leave for his week-long visit to Africa, Oxfam is calling on him to address the enormous harm being done to the continent by unfair US trade policies. Gladney Center for Adoption Presents Bright Futures Camp Gladney Center for Adoption | Summary: Gladney Center for Adoption's 2nd Annual Bright Futures Camp will be July 24 to August 3, 2003 in Fort Worth, Texas. The Camp enables older children from an orphanage in Russia to experience family life in the United States for a week. Inflammation may affect benefits of low-fat, low-cholesterol diet American Heart Association | People with a high level of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation in the body, don't receive the same beneficial reductions in cholesterol while on a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet as those with lower levels of CRP. Protein spots heart patients at high risk for death American Heart Association | A small protein with a long name may become the latest blood biomarker to guide physicians who treat heart attack patients, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. On the go: Clot buster-blood thinner ambulance combo may jump-start heart attack treatment American Heart Association | Combining a clot buster with a form of the blood thinner heparin can be safely initiated for heart attack victims enroute to the hospital – an approach that reduces the time to treatment and could significantly improve survival. American Heart Association outlines 'chilling' plan to prevent brain damage after cardiac arrest American Heart Association | Lowering the body temperature of a person who has been resuscitated after suffering cardiac arrest can help prevent brain damage, according to an international advisory statement published today in Circulation: Journal of the AHA. Statement on Liberia by Catholic Relief Services President, Kenneth F. Hackett Catholic Relief Services | Catholic Relief Services joins the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in strongly encouraging President Bush to support the deployment of an international stabilization force for Liberia with appropriate U.S. participation.
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