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Agent Orange: Congenital deformities plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help
Source: Chicago Tribune
By Jason Grotto. DONG NAI PROVINCE, Vietnam. U.S., Vietnam split over whether defoliants used in war are to blame Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam's high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S.…
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Couple having a blast "giving while living"
Source: Cleveland Jewish News
Cornell University is an Atlantic grantee. By ARLENE FINE, Senior Staff Reporter Jane and Lee Seidman made headlines last week for pledging $6 million to Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital to help fund a new 72-bed patient tower at the Mayfield Heights hospital. This donation is…
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Feeney's 'remarkable' donation will advance the entire field of Australian biomedical research
Source: Philanthropy UK
By Ben Eyre The biggest private donation to a medical research facility in Australian history has been made by Atlantic Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of media-shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist Chuck Feeney. The AU102.5m (£50.8m) donation to scientific research in Queensland, included a record-breaking $50m (£24.8m) grant…
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Feeney donation leverages in $402m
Source: The Australian
Original Source by Guy Healy THE capacity of Brisbane-based universities and research institutes to conduct advanced medical research would be doubled by the record $102.5 million donation by billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, leading immunologist Ian Frazer said this week. In a surprise move, Queensland Premier…
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Shy billionaire gives $102 million to Queensland
Source: Brisbane Times
By Tony Moore. Who is Charles "Chuck" Feeney and why is Premier Anna Bligh so keen to be photographed with him?The answer is a $102 million gift the Irish-American billionaire yesterday gave to three Queensland medical research centres to help scientists fight cancer and develop vaccines…
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Smart windfall to recruit the best
Source: The Australian
Original Source University of Queensland is an Atlantic grantee. by Guy Healy BRISBANE will use $160 million in new and preserved funding to step-up recruitment of top researchers and consolidate a bullish claim to being the country's "Silicon Valley" for medical and pharmaceutical research and…
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Asia's economic transformation puts region's health at risk, warns leading academic
Source: Intellasia interactive
Despite extraordinary progress which has lifted 600 million people out of poverty in Asia since 1990, the basic right to health is under threat and the future looks more uncertain, says University of New South Wales professor of Health and Human Rights, Daniel Tarantola. "The…
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Downturn Puts a Chokehold on Those Caring for Family Members
Source: The New York Times
by JOHN LELAND Teresa Denk is 59 years old and lives with her father, a former mechanic who is 92 and requires constant care. Ms. Denk has not held a full-time job since 2000, when her mother developed cancer and required her daughter's full-time care.…
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Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Source: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY - The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
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The Harlem Miracle
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By DAVID BROOKSOp-Ed Columnist The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious…
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