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DOH 13 holds ‘La Fiesta Pelicula’ competition
Philippine Information Agency It is an infomercial making contest or a video clip making competition that will focus on the four themes, these include Global Handwashing Day, World Toilet Day, World Blood Donor Day/Voluntary Blood Donation and Prevention of Kidney-related Diseases … |
Texarkana Gazette |
Blood donors sought ahead of storm
Texarkana Gazette LifeShare Blood Center is looking for donors to help prevent a potential weather-related blood shortage due to the tropical disturbance forming in the Gulf of Mexico. “The weather event developing in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to impact … |
ABA Journal |
Right of association isn’t infringed by disclosure of charitable donors to state, 9th Circuit says
ABA Journal A public interest law firm and a charitable group co-founded by the Koch brothers have to comply with the California attorney general’s demand for information regarding top charitable donors, a federal appeals court has ruled. The San Francisco-based … |
CTV News |
Charity lunch program in Calgary experiences increase in need for service
CTV News “$40 a month will feed a child for a month and our goal is to sign up 1,000 monthly donors so we can achieve our goals.” She says that the lunch is just the first step and she wants to make sure that all children in need across the city are fed no … |
KGO-TVWoman allegedly pretended to have firefighter husband to scam donorsKGO-TVA woman from California is accused of using a massive wildfire to scam donors out of thousands of dollars in cash and supplies. RELATED: Here are some tips on how to protec…
CTV News |
‘He needs a kidney’: Calgary family hopes to find donor through social media
CTV News In response to their video and social media campaign, Malcolm-Pye says the family has heard from people around the country in similar situations. In 2016, 4,500 Canadians were on transplant wait lists and 260 died waiting. “It’s helped to invigorate me … |
Washington Post44 siblings and countingWashington PostThat has raised fears that the offspring of prolific donors could meet and fall in love without knowing they were closely related, putting their children at risk of genetic disorders. Now the donor-…
Los Angeles Times |
Koch-linked charity must disclose top donors to California, appeals court rules
Los Angeles Times The judicial panel sided with the state, saying that the disclosures are “related to an important state interest in policing charitable fraud,” Judge Raymond C. Fisher wrote in the 41-page opinion. “The panel held that plaintiffs had not shown a … |
WKRC TV CincinnatiStudy: Potatoes not linked to increased risk of chronic diseaseWKRC TV CincinnatiThe study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition, showed total potato consumption was not related to an increased risk for chronic disease. …….
Medical Xpress |
For the first time, a neural link between altruism and empathy toward strangers
Medical Xpress Using fMRI scans, Brethel-Haurwitz and colleagues from Georgetown University discovered that these altruistic kidney donors were more sensitive to a stranger’s fear and pain than a control group, with activation happening in a brain region called the … |