Lilly Foundation gift to Indiana University Cancer Center
...stitution has received a boost with a $7.5 million gift from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. The gift is the largest one-time donation from the Lilly Foundation to an institution or cause. The funds wil...Deaths from rodent virus raise need for tracking system
...msters is not a reason to preclude the life-saving gift of organ donation. However, in cases where the disease transmission by an organ transplant is suspected, tests must be performed to determine whether LCMV has been transmitted to the recipients, whether or not the donor had a household pet." In Decem...Worthy purse strings tie Vera Bradley Foundation $6.8 M gift to IU Cancer Center
...ation to more than $10 million in gifts to IU. The gift will support the IU Breast Cancer Research Program...dley Breast Cancer Research Endowment. The current gift to the IU Breast Cancer Research Program was announced Monday evening in Fort Wayne at the conclusio...Heart transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital celebrates anniversary
... families. The heart transplant team presented a gift to each patient, including the ninth-heart transplant recipient, Edward Razo. Mr. Razo, an ironworker, had helped build the Feinberg and Galter pavilions of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northweste...$20 million gift to Rush University Medical Center kicks-off campus redevelopment
...he announcement that it has received a $20 million gift from the family of Marvin J. Herb of Barrington, I...tee for the Rush Heart and Vascular Institute. The gift is from the Herb family, including his wife Judy and two sons Jon and Tom, and Tom's wife, Wendy. ...Participation in clinical trials does not appear to affect physician's adherence to guidelines
...hanisms may be responsible, including setting up a gift relationship by payment to the trial-conducting physicians. If we had access to information on the costs of the trial, it would have been possible to evaluate if these trial costs were counterbalanced by the revenue from the trial sponsor's increased...BIDMC's Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center receives American College of Surgeons accreditation
...apiro Clinical Center, and supported by a generous gift from Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro, the SASC is one of the most comprehensive facilities of its type in the country. A focal point of the technologically advanced SASC is a mock operating room, equipped to re-create the environment of a re...Spinoff company based on technology developed at OHSU enters new business phase
...nificant motor impairment. Because the anonymous gift was in the form of stock, OHSU may benefit in the ...rom a single individual and because the investor's gift to OHSU consists of stock from a privately held company....Survey shows many teens injured on the job
...cs and nursing homes (124), other farms (109), and gift or hobby shops (107). Another 274 said they were self-employed. The survey found that the number of hours worked each week varied from just five hours to more than 40 hours a week (about 3 percent of the sample). The survey showed that 159 teens abo...Estate of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene donates funds to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
NEW YORK, September 27, 2006 -- A gift from the estate of renowned fashion designer Geoff... Harold Varmus, President of MSKCC. "This generous gift carries us closer to the day when all components of cancer care -- from risk assessment to diagnosis...BioMed Central's Deborah Saltman awarded the Rose-Hunt Award
...Kingdom, Dr Fraser Rose and Dr John Hunt, and is a gift to the RACGP from the UK college. The award is a gift made to any Fellow or Member of the RACGP who, in the opinion of the Council, has rendered outstandi...Georgetown establishes leading institute for global and national health law
...itute, which was created by a generous $10 million gift from Linda and Timothy O'Neill, is among the first for the study of global and national health law. "We are deeply grateful to Linda and Tim O'Neill for this transformative gift," said Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. "Their vision ...Woodruff Foundation gives major boost to Emory University's strategic plan
...n interests together." The Woodruff Foundation's gift includes: $240 million to modernize and tran...the confidence in Emory's future expressed by this gift from the Woodruff Foundation," said President James W. Wagner. "At the same time, we feel a great re...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...nthly individual winners receive Borders bookstore gift certificates. At the end of the year, the overall winning team receives an "active" field trip of their choice. Previous years winners have chosen a softball game with healthy snacks, a swimming party and a rock climbing demonstration. Reinforcing...OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts
...unities around the country to provide this special gift of donation that enhances the life of the recipient is central to the JRF mission. We are pleased to partner with CTS in Portland and others areas to benefit these communities," he said. JRF prepares and coordinates fresh osteochondral allografts t...Drug company sales visits influenced doctors, study finds
...rug samples, the representative will often bring a gift lunch for the doctor and his or her staff, new pens and coffee mugs, offers to attend an educational conference. As a result, the doctor feels subtly, even subconsciously, indebted to the representative. This can lead to higher prescribing." He ad...Dyson Foundation gives $5 Million for ophthalmology research at Weill Cornell Medical College
...xpected to open in the spring of 2008. "This new gift honors the memory of Margaret and Charlie Dyson, who were dedicated supporters of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell. We are very grateful for this gift, which will go a long way to support the new home for our state-of-the-art eye care for our patients,...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
... $250 million -- believed to be the single largest gift ever given to a medical college -- from Joan and S...ionally, Mr. & Mrs. Weill are making a $50 million gift to Cornell University -- the largest gift ever to the Ithaca campus from an individual -- to help fu...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
...tiative is the result of an anonymous $1.5 million gift to support the Millennium Villages, which aims to ...ound and sustainable interventions. A third of the gift will be devoted to supporting the oral health program. Chronic diseases will soon become the leadi...