Society News articles from June 1991

Society News archives from June 1991

"When there's help, there's hope": DDB Needham creates new ad campaign. (Leukemia Society's public service advertising)
June 22, 1991... In the United States, seven of 10 households contribute to charities. DDB Needham, the Society's new volunteer advertising agency, knew the Society needed a public service campaign that would distinguish it from other health groups and set it...

Alabama chapter receives record donation. (Leukemia Society of America)
June 22, 1991... Thomas Ford, a computer programmer for Alabama A&M University, had mixed feelings about accepting the money. "I've always worked for what I got," he said. But his insurance company had refused to pay for a bone marrow transplant he urgently...

President's corner. (Jazzercise's donation to leukemia research and Lynna M. Lesko) (column)
June 22, 1991... Eight years ago we began to publish this newsletter. Volume 1, No. 1 of the four-page Society News featured a story on one of our research grantees, spotlighted Jazzercise for its major fund-raising support, and reported that E. Donnall...

Jack Clark: designated hitter against leukemia.
June 22, 1991... Designated hitter Jack Clark may have a multi-million dollar career with the Boston Red Sox, and he may own the Tom "Mongoose" McEwen drag racing team, but he doesn't define himself by his career or calculate his worth on his image. "It's not...

LSA researcher employs novel technique for CML diagnosis and treatment. (Leukemia Society of America, chronic myelogenous leukemia)
June 22, 1991... A novel technique for rapid diagnosis of genetic disorders, called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), is providing Society Scholar Dr. Ming-Sheng Lee with a useful tool to develop new strategies for treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia...

Little chick looks for spring: a parent's journal of childhood leukemia.
June 22, 1991... PROLOGUE On April 8, 1987, I took off happily to Newport Beach to see the nursery school near the new home we had purchased. I left Rachel, almost three years old, at her nursery school in Los Angeles and Zachary, four months old, with...

Leaving property to children. (estate and financial planning)
June 22, 1991... One of the most difficult decisions in estate planning is determining how your property should be left to your children. There are several alternatives and many factors to be considered in choosing among the alternatives. The purposes of this...

Marrow growth factor gains FDA approval. (leukemia treatment)
June 22, 1991... Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a biotech product that accelerates the growth of bone marrow cells in patients undergoing autologous transplants, has received Food and Drug Administration approval. GM-CSF is now...

No link found between x-rays and leukemia. (report from Journal of the American Medical Association)
June 22, 1991... Diagnostic x-rays can be ruled out as a major cause of leukemia, lymphomas and multiple myeloma in adults, according to a large study of x-ray procedures published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Investigators...

Smoking and leukemia. (report from American Journal of Epidemiology)
June 22, 1991... Parents who smoke have an increased risk of having a child with leukemia or lymphoma, according to a recent study linking tobacco use to childhood cancer. Maternal smoking is among the most common and harmful exposures for a fetus, said...