Charity News from Tuesday, Jun. 1, 2004Study Finds No Gender Gap in Smoking's Lung Cancer RiskAmerican Cancer Society | The most comprehensive analysis to date of lung cancer risk among women does not support the theory that women are more susceptible than men to developing lung cancer after comparable amounts of smoking. Pipe Smoking Linked to Cancer, Other Diseases American Cancer Society | An American Cancer Society study finds pipe smoking confers a similar risk of cancer and other disease as cigar smoking. The largest and most precise study to date of the risks of pipe smoking, appears in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The ASPCA Celebrates June As Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) will be celebrating June as Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month to educate Americans about the wonderful cats and kittens available for adoption at shelters nationwide. Cells From Fat Tissue Turned Into Functional Nerve Cells Duke University Medical Center | Two years after transforming human fat cells into what appeared to be nerve cells, a group led by Duke University Medical Center researchers has gone one step further by demonstrating that these new cells also appear to act like nerve cells. Cream May Ward Off Jellyfish Stings Stanford University School of Medicine | Two dozen volunteers bravely exposed their arms to jellyfish tentacles as part of a new Stanford University School of Medicine study to test a topical, over-the-counter cream designed to protect against stinging nettles. Poison-proof your home to prevent accidents University of Michigan Health System | Every 15 seconds a person in the United States is accidentally poisoned, and about 60 percent of those people are children younger than age six. Most poisonings happen as a result of children's curiosity with their parents' medications. New hope for children with abnormal heart rhythm University of Michigan Health System | From age 3 to 8 , Austin Miller's heart would race up to 200 beats per minute – about double a normal heart rate. Kids and car safety University of Michigan Health System | More than just modes of transportation, cars are potential weapons that kill thousands of people each year, but we can make efforts to keep children safer. Helping kids be 'CHAMP's with constraint therapy University of Michigan Health System | It was about a year before Sherry Ramsdell realized her son, Bailey, was not developing normally. He didn't begin to crawl or talk and missed other developmental milestones. Doctors ran tests and diagnosed Bailey with cerebral palsy. University Of Pittsburgh's Laureate Lecture Series To Feature Noted NIH Molecular Biologist University of Pittsburg Medical Center | Alan G. Hinnebusch, Ph.D., who studies the factors regulating protein synthesis, the critical foundation of almost all biological events, will be the next nationally prominent speaker in the 2004 Senior Vice Chancellor's Laureate Lecture Series. Study Finds High Rate of Genetic Mutation in Younger Korean Women with Breast Cancer Yale School of Medicine | Although Korean women have one of the lowest rates of breast cancer worldwide, they are diagnosed at an earlier age and have a surprisingly high incidence of a genetic mutation known to contribute to breast cancer. Audubon Announces Charles H. Callison Awards National Audubon Society | Audubon honored four of its own last week with the Charles H. Callison Award, which recognizes outstanding National Audubon Society staff and Chapter volunteers. Anne M. Georges and Kasey Gillette Join Audubon Public Policy Office National Audubon Society | Anne M. Georges and Kasey Gillette have joined the National Audubon Society as Assistant Directors of Government Relations, and are both based in Washington, DC. Air Pollution Is Serious Cardiovascular Risk American Heart Association | Exposure to air pollution contributes to the development of cardiovascular diseases, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in today's print issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. World Wildlife Fund Reacts to Forest Service Plans for Burned Areas in the Klamath-Siskiyou National Forest World Wildlife Fund | The U.S. Forest Service's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which calls for the logging of more than 370 million board feet in areas damaged by the 2002 Biscuit Fire, does little to prevent property loss resulting from forest fires. Stem Cells Can Convert To Liver Tissue, Help Restore Damaged Organ Johns Hopkins Medicine | Bone marrow stem cells, when exposed to damaged liver tissue, can quickly convert into healthy liver cells and help repair the damaged organ, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Dam Removal Under Study for Shunock River The Nature Conservancy | As part of a plan to restore the Shunock River as habitat for migratory fish, the Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Association (WPWA) is studying the possibility of removing the dam at Parke Pond on the Shunock River. Secondhand Cigarette Smoke A Component of Air Pollution American Heart Association | Recently, an American Heart Association panel conducted a comprehensive review of literature on air pollution and its relationship to cardiovascular diseases. The Children's Health Fund Launches The Idaho Children's Health Project Children's Health Fund | The Children's Health Fund and Family Health Services are collaborating to launch The Idaho Children's Health Project. This new program will use CHF's signature mobile medical unit, a state-of-the-art medical clinic on wheels. Vitamin C Helps Mice With CMT1A Muscular Dystrophy Association | High doses of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) can improve or stabilize motor function in mice with a particular form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, say researchers in France, who published their results in the April issue of Nature Medicine. Largest Multi-National Mental Health Survey Shows Treatment Of Mentally Ill Woefully Inadequate Harvard Medical School | The largest multi-national mental health survey of its kind ever undertaken has found that the challenge of treating those most severely affected by mental disorders is largely unmet. Junk DNA Yields New Kind of Gene Harvard Medical School | In a region of DNA long considered a genetic wasteland, Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered a new class of gene. Most genes carry out their tasks by making a product--a protein or enzyme.
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