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Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Helping Young Adult Cancer Survivors Raises $4500 for Leanna Elizalde (Popularity:  )
Carolyn's Compassionate Children (CCC), is awarding high school senior and cancer survivor Leanna Elizalde with a $2,500 Survivorship Award after she crosses the stage at Woodland High School's graduation ceremony Saturday. Alex Oden, 20, a two-time brain cancer survivor and CCC scholar alum, will present the check to Leanna and her family after the ceremony.
"Our goal is to raise an additional $10,000 dollars for Leanna's Scholarship Fund," said Carolyn ...
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Study Confirms That Avastin Significantly Increases Chance of Living Without Disease Progression in Metastatic Breast Cancer (Popularity: )
Avastin (bevacizumab), significantly improves the time patients with metastatic breast cancer live without their disease getting worse ("progression-free survival") when combined with a commonly used chemotherapy called docetaxel (Taxotere), compared with docetaxel alone. These findings were presented for the first time today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago. This is the second large phase III trial that met its primary endpoint by showing that Avastin ...
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Lupus Community Rallies Behind Fiancee With Lupus in 'Race to the Altar' (Popularity: )
People living with the autoimmune disease lupus, and their families and friends, are rallying behind a couple competing in the NBC TODAY Show's annual "Race to the Altar." Annie and Tom of Chicago, Illinois are one of four couples who seek to be married in June live on the TODAY Show.
Annie was diagnosed with lupus at age 17. Because lupus is a lifelong and sometimes disabling chronic disease, Annie ...
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Free Baby Announcements Offered by Stork Avenue (Popularity: )
On one special day this summer, more than 11,000 fathers-to-be will have the single, most special reason to celebrate. Their child will be born June 15, 2008 -- Father's Day. To help commemorate this special day, Stork Avenue, a leading retailer of fine quality, printed birth announcements, will give away 24 baby announcements to each of the first 100 customers who visit StorkAvenue.com to announce their June 15th bundle of ...
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Illinois CPA Society Annual Survey on Women in Accounting: Underrepresentation Continues at the Highest Ranks (Popularity: )
The sixth annual Illinois CPA Society Women's Executive Committee survey on Women in Accounting indicates there's still work to be done in getting women CPAs to the highest ranks of their firms.
Findings of the survey, released at the Society's Women's Leadership Breakfast on May 16, show the number of men continues to far outweigh the number of women in partner/principal positions, with men holding 82.8 percent of these leadership ...
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Team Mustang Member, Cancer Survivor to Tell Her Story on NBC's 'Today' Show on Mother's Day (Popularity: )
When Ford (NYSE: F) Mustang business manager Jackie DiMarco was working on the development of the "Warriors in Pink" package for the 2008 Mustang, which was designed to raise money for breast cancer education and research, she had no idea that the project would hit so close to home.
"We were ready to roll with the 'Warriors in Pink' program in the fall of 2006, and in February of 2007, ...
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Capital Gold Group, Inc. - Sponsors C5 Youth Foundation Formerly 'Camp Coca-Cola' (Popularity: )
Capital Gold Group, Inc. announced today that it is a new sponsor of C5 Youth Foundation, whose mission is to change the odds for high-potential youth from risk-filled environments, inspiring them to pursue personal success, and preparing them for leadership roles in college, work and their communities.
Jonathan Rose, founder and CEO of Capital Gold Group, Inc., was personally inspired by the work of the C5 Youth Foundation. In an ...
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Alternative Fuel on the Horizon? Denison Eighth Graders Apply Lessons Learned to Demonstrate Their Solar-Powered Mini-Car (Popularity: )
Applying lessons learned in the classroom, eighth grade students from Denison (Iowa) Middle School have developed a mini-car that is powered by solar energy.
And the car works, as the 11 Denison students demonstrated Friday night in Des Moines, much to their delight.
The students are participating in Smithfield Foods' Learners to Leaders(TM) program and also are enrolled in Iowa State University's (ISU) Science Bound program. As part of the ...
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Hong Kong's First China Sourcing Fair: Baby & Children's Products Opens Today; Only Specialized Fair to Take Place Four Times a Year in Asia (Popularity: )
Global Sources (Nasdaq: GSOL) ( ) will hold the first China Sourcing Fair: Baby & Children's Products at the AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong from April 20-23. The Fair will feature over 130 booths from mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as a pavilion from Taiwan. It is the only show of its kind in Hong Kong.
The Fair is co-located with the successful China Sourcing Fair: Gifts & Home ...
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Will Congress Do More for HIV Prevention? (Popularity: )
With the full House and Senate poised to vote on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) reauthorization bill, a five-year, $50 billion initiative to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide, Congress must address the critical HIV prevention shortfalls in the bill.
Progress has been made on expanding access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) since PEPFAR was enacted in 2003. Today, nearly two million more people have access to anti-retroviral ...
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