Walkers go extra mile for MS cure
The Record Mon, 23 Apr 2007 2:59 AM PDT
Come rain or shine, the MS Walk goes ahead. A year ago, the annual walkathon to raise funds for research into multiple sclerosis took place amid a torrential downpour.

True country grit Long Beach Press-Telegram Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:01 PM PDT More than a decade after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Clay Walker's voice sounds stronger than ever on his first new studio album in four years.

New Information About Old Proteins Offers Researchers Shortcuts To Study Disease Science Daily Mon, 23 Apr 2007 7:06 AM PDT Researchers at Johns Hopkins took advantage of a new technique that reads the makeup of proteins to identify nearly all chemical changes nature makes by adding phosphate to proteins manufactured in human cells.

NIH Awards $7.39 million to Burnham Neurobiologists Newswise Mon, 23 Apr 2007 2:20 AM PDT A team of researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research ("Burnham") has been awarded $7.39 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The funding will support a five-year, multi-project study entitled "Neuron-Glia Communication in Development."

The Politics of Autism Blogcritics.org Mon, 23 Apr 2007 7:26 AM PDT April is Autism Awareness Month and I have chosen to make folks aware of the complexities and conundrums surrounding its politics, which are replete with divisions, debates, and diatribes fueled by self-advocates, special interests, activists, militants, and conspiracy theorists. The two main camps -- though each has its own sub-groups, factions, and radical element -- consist of people who ...

Research and Markets: Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation Medicine Summarizes the Management of Common Symptoms and ... Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Mon, 23 Apr 2007 6:00 AM PDT DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation Medicine, First Edition to their offering.

Clergy Join Push to OK Medical Pot RedNova Sun, 22 Apr 2007 5:21 PM PDT SPRINGFIELD, Ill. _ Illinois' latest attempt to legalize medical marijuana is getting support from a surprising source _ religious leaders. "The moral issue is relief of suffering," said the Rev. D. Jay Johnson of the Union Avenue Christian Church in Litchfield, Ill.

QUEST OF BRITISH! ; 12 Amazing Charities Are All Hoping for a Cut of Up to Pounds 50,000 Man of The People Cheque. Read ...
RedNova Sun, 22 Apr 2007 5:21 PM PDT
By JENNA SLOAN THESE are the dozen finalists in our Man of The People Quest to give up to pounds 50,000 to the nation's most deserving charities. We have been inundated with requests from good causes since TV host and People columnist Eamonn Holmes launched the appeal in February.