Newsletter 2000

March - June - September - December -
Research Report

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VHL Family Forum, ISSN 1066-4130 Volume 8, Number 1
March  2000      Download a printable copy of this issue

• Laparoscopic Cryoablation for RCC, by Andrew C. Novick, M.D.
• Ingredients for a Good Surgical Outcome, by Emma K., Australia
• Pansies for Hope
• Art Contest!  Calendar 2001, and new T-shirt design
• Frameless Stereotaxy, by P.W.A. Willems, F. J. Hes, and C.A.F. Tulleken
• If I had my life to live over, by Erma Bombeck
• Chapter News: New York
• Altheada's Story, by Altheada Johnson, New York
• Gene Repair in rats raises hope, by Penny Stern, M.D.
• Hormones and VHL
• Banning Genetic Discrimination
• Adaptive Technology, by Edmund D. Kiselica, Florida
• 2000 Grants
• Trichlorethylene Exposure, by Hiltrud Brauch et al.
• Disabilities and Work
• Conference 2000!

VHL Family Forum, ISSN 1066-4130 Volume 8, Number 2
June  2000      Download a printable copy of this issue

• First in the Family: VHL Mosaicism, by Lindsay Middelton and Dr. Gladys Glenn
• Ask the Family
• Ask the Experts
• The Spouse, by Richard H., Denmark
• Resources: Hot Braille, Gift of Pain, Capitol Hill
• Happy Father's Day
• Thank you
• Pansies for Hope
• Getting Help with Depression, by Dan Kavanaugh, NIH
• Sleep, a poem by Rob W., Minnesota
• To the School Nurse, by Camille Wendekier, Pennsylvania
• Chapter News: Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Wisconsin
• Conference 2000! - earlybird deadline June 28

VHL Family Forum ISSN 1066-4130 Volume 8, Number 3
September 2000      Download a printable copy of this issue

• The Human Genome has been Sequenced, Now What?  by Virginia Michels, M.D., Mayo Clinic
  • Dr. Patrick Maxwell, Oxford University, on HIF-1
• Consensus Meeting

"Health is not static; it is normal to lose it periodically in order to come back to it in a better way." -- Andrew Weil, M.D.

• It's All in Your Head, by Elizabeth B., Alabama
• Teamwork for Health, report from the Minnesota meeting
  • Welcome, Henrietta!
• Cooking Tumors to Zap Cancer, by Bonnie Flock
• Happy Birthday to Vic!
• A Time to Walk, by Jay Platt, Georgia
• Gifts That Keep on Giving

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. --Nicholas Murray Butler

VHL Family Forum, ISSN 1066-4130 Volume 8, Number 4
December 2000      Download a printable copy of this issue

• Q&A About DNA Testing, by Vicki Couch, M.S., Minnesota
  • Where to find the best DNA testing?
• Ask the Experts: about Scanning
• Information is Power to Protect, by Emily and Laurie, Minnesota
• Warburg and Glycolysis, by Dr. Peter Maxwell, Oxford, England
• Smoking and Depression
• We've Come a Long Way! by Susan McGuire
• Predisposed -- Not Inevitable! by Tara E. and Joyce G.
• What to do with Tofu? by Nakao K., Japan
• Ask the Experts: about Regaining your Balance
• Instructions for Life
• Juliet Yuen Hsia, by James M. Lamiell, M.D.
• My Daughter Saved my Life, by Tim N., California
• Progress in Spain and South America
• Meet us in Palo Alto!

VHL Family Forum, ISSN 1066-4130 Volume 8, Number 5
Research Report 2000      Download a printable copy

• New Hope, from Don M., Vice Chair, VHL Family Alliance
• New Drugs, from Dr. Adrian Harris, Oncologist, Oxford, England
• 2000 Research Grants Awarded to William Rigby, Maria Czezyk-Krzeska, and Shahriar Koochekpour
• Let's do it again!
• Information is Power
• Let's Cure VHL in this Decade!
• Progress! Financial review of Fiscal 2000
• Remember VHLFA in your Will
• Membership, Donations