Boys and Girls Club Palm Beach County“The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who ...
Autism SpeaksAutism Speaks' Walk Now for Autism Speaks, the nation's largest grassroots autism walk program, is our signature fundraising and awareness event, taking place ...
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyTNT trains for events around the country and abroad. Challenge yourself to complete a marathon, half marathon, triathlon, hiking event or 100 mile bike ride. ...
An outreach program at the Riley Hospital for Children Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center has been designated as one of six resource centers of the Indiana Resource Network established by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE).
HANDS in Autism is the only program focusing on autism named to the Indiana Resource Network (IRN).
An acronym for Helping [...]
Children with autism have a different chemical fingerprint in their urine than non-autistic children, according to new research published in the print edition of the Journal of Proteome Research.
The researchers behind the study, from Imperial College London and the University of South Australia, suggest that their findings could ultimately lead to a simple urine test [...]
You think it’s too early to commit to the Komen Orange County Race for the Cure on September 26? People are already registering for the Race. One person in particular who plans to attend is Ambassador Nancy Brinker, the Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. If she can put our Race [...]
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When children belong to a youth club, they gain a stronger sense of who they are as a person, an Ohio State University study has revealed.
The study suggests that even small improvements in self concept go a long way toward keeping children out of trouble.
“The more kids participate in these clubs, the better self concept [...]
Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN), in collaboration with EPI-Q, Inc. and Avatar International, LLC, have announced the launch of My MS Health, a first-of-its-kind, web-based, patient-reported outcomes (PRO) research program. My MS Health is designed to track and provide instant reports on patient function and quality of life (QoL) using [...]
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Rituximab has recently been added to the arsenal of treatments for lymphoma patients. Adding rituximab to traditional chemotherapy regimens has been found to increase an individual’s chance of cure and extend their survival time. Results from British Columbia indicate that rituximab is also a cost-effective treatment, providing good value for money.
Traditionally, economic evaluations of rituximab [...]
After analyzing the birth history of over 400,000 schoolchildren, Scottish researchers found that the risk of autism and/or special educational needs (SEN) were 1.16 times greater for babies born at 37 to 39 weeks of gestation, compared to those born at the full 40 weeks. This finding has important implications for the timing of elective [...]
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In the U.S., one out of eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. The earlier the breast cancer is found, the more likely a woman will live a normal life, said Stephen Rose, M.D., a breast radiologist at Memorial Hermann Memorial City.
Since April, the Bobetta Lindig Breast Care Center at Memorial Hermann Memorial [...]
When Cathy Hirsch was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 43, she was worried about going through chemo, and whether she would be able to care for her 2 children, then 8 and 10, and keep up the demands of her job. Now, over 6 years later, she’s cancer-free and working full-time to give back [...]
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By AMY MOORE
It’s easy to tell Reid Sanchez is a huge Silsbee Tigers fan.
He knows the football schedule by heart, sports Tiger T-shirts for almost every team and organization on campus and touches every Tiger emblem he comes across.
Soon he’ll add Tiger letterman to his impressive catalog.
Sanchez, an incoming sophomore, served as manager for the [...]
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