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Donald R.Mattison, March of Dimes, White Plains, New York... 

D. How much trust would you have in genetic research conducted by organizations like the American Cancer Society and the March of Dimes ... 

Bloom, A. D., Ed. "Guidelines for Studies of Human Populations Exposed to Reproductive Hazards " March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation New York, 1981, passim. 

March of Dimes - Caffeine in Pregnancy Fact Sheet. Online. Available HTTP (accessed 9 April 2003). 

March of Dimes has a number of fact sheets including this one on caffeine. 

March of Dimes works to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health prematurity, birth defects, low birth weight . 

Bloom AD (1981) Guidelines for reproductive studies in exposed human populations. Guideline for studies of human populations exposed to mutagenic and reproductive hazards. Report of Panel II. White Plains. New York, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, pp 37-110. 

Most studies find that moderate use of caffeine does not impair fertility, risk miscarriage, or increase the chance of having a baby with birth defects. The March of Dimes has concluded that moderate caffeine is of low risk to pregnant and nursing women. 

Research on deoxyribozymes in the Silverman laboratory is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, with previous support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the March of Dimes, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, and the University of Illinois. Research on deoxyribozymes in the Baum laboratory is supported by Saint Louis University. 

This work was supported in part by Grant AM 10531 from The National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolic and Digestive Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and grants from the National Foundation-March of Dimes and from the Arthritis Foundation, Michigan Chapter. 

The immune windows , along with developmental windows for the respiratory system, were identified at a workshop sponsored by the USEPA and the March of Dimes (see Dietert et al., 2000 Holladay Smialowicz, 2000 Landreth, 2002). They include 1) initiation of haematopoiesis, 2) migration and expansion of stem cell populations, 3) colonization events, including bone marrow colonization, pre-T cell seeding to the thymus, T cell education, T cell repertoire establishment, then seeding of the periphery by mature T cells, 4) acquisition of immunocompetence, and, finally, 5) the... 

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Donald Mattison (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation), appointed by the Commission on Life Sciences, who was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution. 

The authors research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, A0I07825 The American Cancer Society, IM-5H the National Foundation—March of Dimes, 1-492. 

Figure 10 Fetal alcohol syndrome rates in the United States, 1980-88. These rates have shown a steady increase due to increased recognition and reporting of this condition by physicians and not necessarily due to increased alcoholism among women of childbearing age. (Reproduced from Birth Defects and Infant Mortality, Infant Mortality Report Series, vol. 1, no. 2, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, with permission from March of Dimes.)...

We are grateful to Francesco Galimi for critical review of the manuscript. Inder Verma is an American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and is supported by NIH, the March of Dimes, the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation, and the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation. 

Our work on the Na channel genes has been supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM24872), the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NS34509), the March of Dimes, and the American Epilepsy Foundation with support from UCB Pharma, Inc. 

The authors express their gratitude to M. Featherstone for communicating unpublished results cited in this work. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the Canadian Institutes of Heath Research, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and the Fonds de la Recherches en Sante de Quebec for support. 

Anon., National Foundation/March of Dimes Facts. National Foundation, New York, 1975. 

State to state. Some states were quick to implanent MS/MS and began screening for more than 40 disorders, while other states lagged behind and screened for only 3 disorders [16], National organizations, such as the March of Dimes, as well... 

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