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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Office of Dietary Supplements and National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine hold a conference on Mechanistic Studies of Cardiovascular Effects of Botanicals.

Agenda: Highlights:

8:30 a.m. - Flavonoid-containing Botanicals

Chair: Curt D. Furberg, Wake Forest University

Cardiovascular Protection: The Role of Alcohol and Red Wine Polyphenols

Dale Parks, University of Alabama at Birmingham

9:10 a.m. - Hawthorn Extract for Congestive Heart Failure: Pre-clinical and Clinical Studies

Keith Aaronson, University of Michigan

10:10 a.m. - Cardiovascular Effect of Soy Phytoestrogen: Pre-clinical Studies

Thomas Clarkson, Wake Forest University

11 a.m. - Clinical Studies of the Cardiovascular Effects of Phytoestrogens

Greg Burke, Wake Forest University

DATE: August 23, 2002

LOCATION: Natcher Conference Center, Building 45, Bethesda, MD,

CONTACT: 301-592-3320

WEB ADDRESS:nccam.nih.gov/news/agenda/index.htm

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Nadia Diuk, Director for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy discussing Eleven Years of Ukrainian Independence: A Watershed?

DATE: August 23, 2002

LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-457-6949

WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov