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BREAST CANCER TOWN HALL MEETING NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Even if you couldn’t attend Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Town Hall Meeting, you can still find out about the latest in drug, surgical and radiological approaches to the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. Visit www.cancer.northwestern.edu to hear an audio replay of the town hall meeting or to read transcripts from this event.

The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University held its Sept. 21 Breast Cancer Town Hall Meeting to kick-off October’s National Breast Cancer Awareness month. More than 350 people came to hear a panel of patient advocates and noted breast cancer researchers and physicians discuss “The Promises and Myths of Breast Cancer Research.”

Over 170 Youth Walk

Dolton. IL - The 2003 Walk for Children’s Health was a complete success, with over 170 youth participants, approximately 30 adult volunteers and representatives from the more than 17 sponsors, supporters and partners.

Participants in the Sept. 13 three-mile-walk stepped off at 31st Street along the Lake Shore Drive Bike Path, continued to 47th street and ended at the starting point. Helping families fight obesity among youth through nutrition education and physical fitness was the focus of the event, which was presented by the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois, (HCI), a community-based Integrated health and social service organIzation with a diverse membership representing all facets of the health and human service disciplines.

British Treasury chief calls for global free health care for every child

BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) _ Britain’s government on Monday called on the international community to spend 50 billion pounds (US$83 billion) more every year to guarantee free health care for every child.

Treasury chief Gordon Brown, addressing the annual conference of the governing Labor Party, said the world should be ashamed that 30,000 children died in Africa each day from avoidable diseases, because they had no access to health care

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