Charity News from Thursday, May. 27, 2004America's Second Harvest Works with National Guard's Family Assistance CentersAmerica's Second Harvest | As our country prepares to celebrate this Memorial Day, America's Second Harvest today announced a new collaborative effort with the National Guard to make sure that the families of active National Guard units have one less thing to worry about. Pharmacogenomics could replace "trial-and-error" with science from the human genome to optimize drug therapy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | The future use of a gene-based technology called pharmacogenomics could lower the cost of health care by decreasing the occurrence of adverse drug effects and increasing the probability of successful therapy. Chronic Care Medicine: Physicians Say "Help!" Johns Hopkins Medicine | In a national survey of practicing family physicians, pediatricians, internists and surgeons, the majority reported that their training in chronic care medicine was too thin overall to meet the demands of their practices. Inexperienced Surgeons Operate On Most Ovarian Cancer Patients In Maryland Johns Hopkins Medicine | Johns Hopkins researchers report that more than half of ovarian cancer surgeries in Maryland are done by surgeons who perform the operation only once or at most four times a year. Mutant Biological Machine Makes Proteins But Can't Let Go Johns Hopkins Medicine | Writing in the May 28 issue of Cell, Johns Hopkins researchers report that four critical components of cells' protein-building machine don't do what scientists had long assumed. CRS Announces 2004 Award Recipients for Humanitarian Reporting Catholic Relief Services | The awards, presented at the Catholic Press Association convention in Washington, DC, honor journalists writing for Catholic publications on issues related to the developing world. Torrential Rains, Flooding Leave Tens of Thousands in Need in the Dominican Republic and Haiti Catholic Relief Services | Flooding caused by torrential rains in Haiti and the Dominican Republic has left more than 20,000 people in need of assistance, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) reported today. Nearly 2,000 people have lost their lives. British American Tobacco's Actions at Document Depository Hinder Research Mayo Clinic | A Mayo Clinic tobacco researcher and his colleagues present findings in the latest issue of The Lancet journal that detail the British American Tobacco (BAT) company's efforts to conduct surveillance on visitors to its document depository. UPMC Moves To New Transplant, Medical Facility That Now Also Serves Foreign Patients University of Pittsburg Medical Center | After operating out of temporary quarters for five years, the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center has opened Italy's only facility dedicated entirely to transplantation of all solid organs and therapies for the treatment of end-stage organ failure. Columbia University Medical Center establishes Reiner Center for Behavioral and Psychosomatic Medicine Columbia University Health Sciences | Columbia University Medical Center has received a $5 million gift from Edward S. Reiner to establish the Reiner Center for Behavioral and Psychosomatic Medicine, the only center of its kind in New York City.
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