Press Releases

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) have partnered to fight heart disease and promote healthy lifestyles by initiating regional and national research projects and by coordinating a public outreach campaign.

Macular Degeneration Research (MDR) and National Glaucoma Research (NGR), two programs of the American Health Assistance Foundation, have awarded a total of $2.4 million in eye disease research grants for 2007.

Alzheimer's Disease Research (ADR) has granted two Centennial Awards of one million dollars each to Dr. Bradley T. Hyman of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Dr. Donald F. Weaver of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The researchers were chosen through a competitive review process begun in 2006, marking 100 years since Dr. Alois Alzheimer described this disease.