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Blankets Instead Of Drugs To Avoid The Shivers In Brain Damage
Have you ever covered yourself with a blanket to stave off the shivers? A new study shows that a blanket can also help alleviate shivering in patients who have been cooled to prevent brain damage.

Arrival Of Summer Could Spell Trouble For Your Skin!
As Memorial Day Weekend and the opening of the summer beach season fast approach, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) is making experts available to discuss the risks of developing skin cancer and what steps can be taken to prevent it.
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Former President Clinton, U.N. Advisor Douste-Blazy Announce Voluntary Airline Ticket Donation
Former President Clinton has joined efforts to raise money for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from travelers purchasing electronic airline tickets, the New York Times reports. At a press conference in Paris with United Nations special advisor Philippe Douste-Blazy, Clinton said, "If you provide a user-friendly, efficient way of giving, the contributors will use this system."The U.N. is behind the effort, which will enable travelers to voluntarily add a $2 donation for projects to fight malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS when buying an airline ticket, the Times reports. Both Clinton and Douste-Blazy are working with a newly formed group - Leading Innovative Financing for Equity, or LIFE. LIFE is comprised of eight different groups working to raising money for health aid. According to Douste-Blazy, efforts targeting small donors will begin in January 2010. He added that "the idea is that the citizens of the world are connected by the Internet and credit cards and can show their solidarity."The groups also hope to reach people renting cars, booking hotels or buying train tickets, the Times reports (Carvajal, New York Times, 5/21). Clinton said U.S. air passengers will be able to voluntarily participate in the program, adding, "There is no question that huge numbers of people will participate in this. They understand that it doesn"t cost much and that 100% will go to save lives." (AFP/Google.com, 5/20).
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Center For Vision Restoration Of UPMC And Pitt Receives Multi-Million Dollar Gift To Be Matched By UPMC

The Center for Vision Restoration of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh today announced a $3 million gift from Louis J. Fox, a Pennsylvania native and Pitt graduate. UPMC has pledged to match Mr. Fox"s donation to the Center. Mr. Fox, a retired commodity merchant banker and trader, has embraced the Center"s mission to discover cures for blindness and vision impairment through a joint program of the UPMC Eye Center and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. "His generous gift will aid us in our efforts to pioneer comprehensive, patient-driven research and clinical therapies to treat people who through disease, accident or injury have limited sight. To honor his generosity, the Center will now be known as the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration," said Center executive director Maj. Gen. (retired) Gale Pollock, who, as former Deputy Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, recognized the need to find ways to restore lost vision. More than one in 10 of all combat wounds during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have been eye injuries and, in some cases, have left service members with impaired vision, Gen. Pollock noted. Unfortunately, there often is very little that can be done to restore sight after severe eye trauma. In addition, the World Health Organization estimates that about 120 million people worldwide are visually impaired due to cataracts, corneal scarring, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and other conditions. Those figures hit home for Mr. Fox, who was diagnosed 10 years ago with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), an incurable condition caused by blood vessel obstruction. It rapidly left him with life-changing vision loss, first in his right eye and then in his left three years later. More than 100,000 Americans are estimated to have CRVO. "Before my situation, I knew very little about vision loss," said Mr. Fox, who is married with two grown children and currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and Taconic, Conn. "As an avid pilot and sailor, I had taken my good vision for granted. Losing it has been extremely difficult. I learned of the Center for Vision Restoration at UPMC soon after it was established in September 2008, and of the promising work being done here." "My heartfelt desire is that my contribution speeds the discovery and development of therapies that will make it possible for people to see again," he added. The University of Pittsburgh


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