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...problems with ALS is that there are not a lot of novel treatment ideas coming from new places,” said Boaz.With the help of Daniel J. Isenberg, a senior lecturer who taught Kremer in his entrepreneurial course, Boaz and Kremer founded Prize4life, a nonprofit organization that will provide $10 million worth of rewards to ALS researchers.Boaz and Kremer will officially launch the website prize4life.org and the contest on Friday.To better understand the pharmaceutical market, Kremer had first organized a symposium of major pharmaceutical competitors to discuss what is slowing the discovery of new treatments for ALS. For Prize4Life...
...White House. First there were 30,000 letters, then 50,000, and 150,000 the next day. Desks, offices, and corridors were buried in mail sacks. A total of 2,680,000 dimes had been sent. With this outpouring of generosity from ordinary Americans, Roosevelt established the nonprofit health agency known today as the March of Dimes. It was a unique grassroots organization that brought together volunteers and scientists from across the country with a common purpose. The March of Dimes went on to become “the gold standard for philanthropies devoted to eliminating diseases...
...surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing--thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit...
...accident that a punk-rock band from Salt Lake City, Utah, called itself Hospital Food. The typical fare at medical centers is ba-a-a-ad. "When you say 'hospital food,' people laugh because it's so lousy," says Jamie Harvie of Health Care Without Harm, a Minnesota-based nonprofit...
Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest nonprofit health system, has arranged for weekly farmers' markets at 29 of its hospitals and has switched to milk from cows raised without synthetic hormones at all its medical centers. Organic fruits and vegetables are now being served at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In Hermiston, Ore., Good Shepherd Health Care System banned potato chips in favor of baby carrots and replaced beef with antibiotic- and hormone-free bison. "It has 75% less fat than beef and a third less fat than chicken," says dietitian...