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Through a program devised by its store owners, the company has helped establish 153 Ronald McDonald Houses, named for the chain's trademark clown, where families of seriously ill children can stay while the child is undergoing extensive medical treatment, such as chemotherapy or bone-marrow transplants. Each house serves an average of 15 families who pay from $5 to $15 a night, if they can afford it. The local projects are supported by local fund drives, and all the money collected goes directly to the houses; McDonald's pays all administrative costs of the program, which extends to Canada...
...didn't say Counter was an anti Semite, but we came damn close. According to everyone who has worked with the man, there isn't an anti-Semitic bone in his body...
...KNEW WHY EIGHT PATIENTS ENTERED NEW England hospitals with vitamin D overdoses, but researchers wanted to find out. Too little of this crucial vitamin can lead to bone weakness and rickets, the deforming of bones in growing children. That's why D, found naturally in only a few foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead...
Many great horses have been bigger and stronger. Arazi is small -- he stands 5 ft. 2 in. at the shoulder -- and is vulnerable in the knees. Five months ago he underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove bone spurs in both his front legs, though he is now fully recovered. Yet he retains one outstanding quality: enormous acceleration. Explains Arazi's French trainer Francois Boutin: "It is not his speed that counts as much as his courage to overtake other horses at the right moment and win races." With each appearance in the winner's circle, speculation has also grown over...
...source of hope. Doctors have known for years that thalidomide is among the most effective treatments for leprosy. And last week a research team from Johns Hopkins reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that the drug can also improve the survival rate of patients who get bone-marrow transplants, which are used to treat potentially fatal disorders including aplastic anemia and some blood cancers...