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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
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