Charity News from Monday, Jun. 21, 2004First-Year P&S Student Wins National Scientific Scholarship From J. Edgar Hoover FoundationColumbia University Health Sciences | Joseph F. D'Angelo, VP and director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, announced that Gina Badalato, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S), receives the prestigious 2004 J. Edgar Hoover Foundation Scientific Scholarship. New Finding Will Improve Lymphoma, Autoimmune Disorder Treatments Duke University Medical Center | Duke University Medical Center immunologists have pinpointed how a widely used treatment for non Hodgkin's lymphoma attacks abnormal immune cells, called B cells. Protecting Kids from Environmental Asthma Duke University Medical Center | Despite improvements in air quality in the United States, asthma and allergy attacks in children are on the rise. Some experts suspect this may be due in part to kids spending more time indoors, where they're exposed to more allergens. Stem Cells Commit To A Future Of Fat With One Signal Johns Hopkins Medicine | In the June 21 advance online section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins researchers report finding a key signal in mice that tells stem cells to commit to becoming fat cells.
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