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East Team Rallies to 5-4 9th Inning Victory in 2007 Aflac All-American High School Baseball Classic in San Diego (Popularity: )
http://www.aflac.com
The East squad scored three runs in the ninth inning for a 5-4 win over the West in front of a standing room crowd of 2,725 at the fifth annual Aflac All-American High School Baseball Classic at San Diego State University's Tony Gwynn Stadium. The Aflac Classic is the nation's premier high school baseball game, featuring the best 38 players in the country entering their senior year. It was the ...

May 5 Designated as National Childhood Stroke Awareness Day (Popularity: )
http://www.chop.edu
Children and teenagers suffer from strokes. Although usually a condition in older adults, stroke affects approximately 26 out of every 100,000 newborns and nearly six out of every 100,000 children each year. This week the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution by Robert Casey (D-Pa.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) to designate May 5, 2007 National Childhood Stroke Awareness Day. The Senate resolution also commends The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for ...

Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Helping Young Adult Cancer Survivors Raises $4500 for Leanna Elizalde (Popularity: )
http://www.change.org
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 ...

River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nearly One-Third In At-Risk Populations In Six Countries (Popularity: )
http://www.cartercenter.org
A regional initiative launched in the 1990s to eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness) in the Americas has substantially reduced the prevalence of the disease in recent years, as evidenced by a 31% decrease in the number of individuals requiring mass drug administration in six endemic countries. Results were reported today at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).The reported progress reflects the success of ...

Study Confirms That Avastin Significantly Increases Chance of Living Without Disease Progression in Metastatic Breast Cancer (Popularity: )
http://www.thenewsmarket.com
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 ...

CUNA/CFA 10th Annual Survey of Consumer Holiday Spending Attitudes, Plus Spending Tips (Popularity: )
Consumers plan to spend more during the holidays this year than during the depths of the recession a year ago, but their spending is still expected to be more restrained than in prior years, according to the tenth annual holiday spending survey conducted by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the Credit Union National Association (CUNA).This year 43% of consumers said they intend to cut back their holiday spending, ...

Tumor Painting Revolutionizes Fight Against Cancer (Popularity: )
http://www.seattlechildrens.org
A tumor paint developed by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will help surgeons see where a tumor begins and ends more precisely by illuminating the cancerous cells. The study, published in the July 15, 2007 issue of Cancer Research, shows that the tumor paint can help surgeons distinguish between cancer cells and normal brain tissue in the operating room. The paint is ...

Team Mustang Member, Cancer Survivor to Tell Her Story on NBC's 'Today' Show on Mother's Day (Popularity: )
http://www.ford.com
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, ...

Soles4Souls(TM) Inc, the Shoe Charity, Sends 30,000 Pairs of Shoes to be Distributed to Victims of Hurricane Ike (Popularity: )
http://www.soles4souls.org
Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international charity dedicated to providing free footwear to those in desperate need, announced today it has sent 30,000 pairs of shoes to a staging area in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and will distribute them to victims of Hurricane Ike early next week. Ike is expected to make landfall in the Galveston, Texas area by late Friday evening or early Saturday and continue on toward Houston. Weather forecasters have ...

Chrysler LLC, BEST Academy and KaBOOM! Join together to Build a New Playground (Popularity: )
http://media.chrysler.com
Students at the Business, Entrepreneurship, Science & Technology (BEST) Academy, a charter school in Highland Park, Mich., now have a new place to swing, slide and play, courtesy of Chrysler LLC employees, Highland Park residents and the nonprofit organization KaBOOM! Today, led by Chrysler Chairman and CEO Bob Nardelli -- with a hammer in one hand and a wrench in the other -- more than 250 volunteers built a state- ...