October 19th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Doing Everything to Help the Best Canadian Researchers Defeat Cancer
Founded in 1945, The Cancer Research Society (The CRS) is a national not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to fund cancer research exclusively and to offer seed money for the most promising original ideas, projects and researchers across Canada.
In concert with our funding [...]
October 16th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Dr Shoukat Dedhar, BC Cancer Agency, UBC, $682,500 over five years, is focusing on how a group of receptors, integrins, and a protein that he identified, ILK, react to their microenvironment to regulate cell growth, movement and death. This work may lead to the development of more effective therapies for cancer.
Dr Grant [...]
October 16th, 2009 More than 80 years ago four courageous women had a vision: to open a facility where newcomers from all cultures could work and be cared for by medical professionals who understood their language and needs.
This visionary spirit translated into philanthropy as they raised $12,000, much of it in nickels and dimes, and funded the opening [...]
October 16th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Cerebral palsy results from a brain injury at the time of birth, or during infancy. Premature birth, lack of obstetric care, and rampant malaria combine to produce a [...]
October 16th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Scientists are making great strides in identifying potential new interventions to diagnose, slow, prevent, treat, and someday cure Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, more than 90 drugs are in clinical trials for AD, and more are in the pipeline awaiting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to enter human testing.
AD research can move forward [...]
October 14th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Every year in the United States, open-admission animal shelters across the nation are forced to put to death roughly half of the 6 million to 8 million unwanted dogs and cats who pour into their overwhelmed facilities. Wonderful, healthy, social, loveable animals lose their lives because of simple math: too many animals [...]
October 14th, 2009 In the developing world, there is no such thing as a disabled individual. When a mother or father is blind, the whole family bears the economic and emotional strain of the disability. Children are taken out of school to care for blind parents, to run households, and to put [...]
October 13th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
the truck carrying this cow was unloaded at Walton Stockyards in Kentucky one September morning. After the other animals were removed from the truck, she was left behind, unable to move. Stockyard workers used customary electric prods in her ear to try to get her out of the truck, then they beat [...]
October 13th, 2009 Research is the only route to discovering new and better ways to manage and treat the many forms of arthritis. With financial support from its Division offices, The Arthritis Society has been able to develop an excellent Research and Career Development Program that contributes millions of dollars each year to arthritis research in Canada.
This year, [...]
October 13th, 2009 OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
October is a month to build breast cancer awareness and to pay tribute to those affected by this disease. Learn more about breast cancer and how to become breast aware by visiting http://www.cbcf.org/breastcancer.
BREAST CANCER IN CANADA
In 2009 22,700 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer
In 2008 170 men will [...]