Boston Globe: New TV and Print Ad Campaign Urges Embryonic Stem-Murray Charters

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>    Subject: Boston Globe: New TV and Print Ad Campaign Urges Embryonic Stem
>    From: Murray Charters <Murray_Charters@xxxxxxxxx>
>    Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:21:46 -0700

The Boston Globe
P.R.Newswire, 7/10/2001 13:34
New TV and Print Ad Campaign Urges Embryonic Stem
Cell Supporters to Contact President Bush

'Samantha's Best Hope for a Cure'

WASHINGTON, July 10 /PRNewswire/- The Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation is launching a major TV and print advertising
campaign asking the public to let President Bush know they
support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

The ads, which are running on national and Washington cable
programs and in key print news publications, feature Samantha,
an 11-year-old with juvenile diabetes. Scientists believe embryonic
stem cell research holds exceptional promise for cures for diseases
like Samantha's, as well as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, heart
disease, spinal cord injuries and others.

The ads are aimed at increasing public awareness that embryonic
stem cell research is not simply a scientific or a political issue,
but an issue of human suffering and of great hope among
an estimated 100 million American patients. The campaign reflects
nationwide opinion surveys by several news organizations that
show strong, widespread support for the research, including
among Catholics, fundamentalist Christians and abortion opponents.

President Bush is expected to decide any day whether to continue
federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, under specific
guidelines established last year by the National Institutes for Health.

JDRF, the world's leading nonprofit, nongovernmental funder
of diabetes research, was founded in 1970 by the parents of children
with juvenile diabetes -- a disease which strikes children suddenly,
makes them insulin dependent for life, and carries the constant threat
of devastating complications.

Since inception, JDRF has provided more than $410 million
to diabetes research worldwide. In 2001 alone, the Foundation will
spend $120 million and 85 cents of every dollar goes directly
to research and education about research. JDRF's mission is constant:
to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support
of research. For more information, visit the website at
 , or call 800-533-CURE.

The full text of the ads -- including video streaming of the TV
ad -- is available on-line at  .

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SOURCE  Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

SOURCE: The Boston Globe


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