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ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Build-A-Bear Workshop(R), the interactive entertainment retailer of customized stuffed animals, announced today that it is raising funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) throughout the month of November as part of National Diabetes Awareness Month. In an effort to support research to help find better treatments and a cure for type 1 diabetes, Build-A-Bear Workshop Guests can support JDRF by adding a $1 donation to their total purchase when they check out at any Build-A-Bear Workshop retail locations in the United States or at buildabear.com.
These donations will be directed to JDRF and its chapters throughout the country by the Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation. Additionally, all store locations in Canada will feature...
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Both Autoimmune Diseases May Respond to a Two-Way Genetic Switch
PHILADELPHIA, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pediatric researchers analyzing DNA variations in type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease have found a complex interplay of genes. Some genes have opposing effects, raising the risk of one disease while protecting against the other. In other cases, a gene variant may act in the same direction, raising the risk for both diseases.
... Center for Applied Genomics; from Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute and the Juvvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; the Primary Children's Medical Center Foundation;...
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... governance for all stem cell research in Canada. As noted in Part 1 below, there are multiple inst...; and 5) NGOs, disease and charitable foundations and advocacy groups. The network is thus an organi... and Stroke Foundation (HSF) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) are key funder...
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.... To help fund international research, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada ...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Carrie Strehlau, +1-901-595-2295, carrie.strehlau@stjude.org or Summer Freeman, +1-901-595-3061, summer.freeman@stjude.org, both of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
... affects children and is sometimes called juvenile diabetes. About 15,000 new cases are diagnosed ann... of the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The work was supported in part by the Juvenile Diiabetes Research Foundation International, the National Institutes of Health a...
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... children throughout the United States and Canada, including the American Cancer Society, Cooperstowwn Youth Baseball, Harlem Little League, Juvenile Diabetes Research, South Suburban College Foundati...
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS
Contact: John Ascenzi of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, +1-267-426-6055, Ascenzi@email.chop.edu
...Type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes, usually begins in childhood, when the bo..., other parts of North America, Canada, Europe and Australia. The genotyping work identif..., the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, Genome Canada (through the Ontario ...
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... SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS, JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION ROBERT...'re referring to, which was reported from Canada in the year 2000, was widely held and adopted. NI...
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WASHINGTON, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, actor Kevin Kline and children with type 1 diabetes from all over the country will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to thank Congress for its renewal last December of the Special Diabetes Program and highlight the importance of the federal government's commitment in helping to advance type 1 diabetes research. They will also urge federal officials to take immediate action to advance the testing of artificial pancreas systems, which could dramatically change the day- to-day management of type 1 diabetes. The Senate hearing, "Transforming Lives through Diabetes Research," will take place on June 22, 2011 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET at Dirksen Senate Building, Room G50. JDRF Interna...
...The hearing is the culmination of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's (JDRF) Children's C... delegates traveling from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands and the ...
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... company established the Boston Pizza Foundation, which has raised more than $3 million for organiz... of Canada, Kids Help Phone and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In addition, the fou...