World Children's organization honors Inderjit Khurana

FREMONT: Inderjit Khurana, Founder of Ruchika Social Service Organization (RSSO) was named a finalist for the 2007 World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC). Inderjit Khurana, RP Dwivedy and two children, Bijay from the Ruchika Platform School and Sanjukta from the Alternative school, will be in Sweden in April 2007 to receive the award. A vote by children between now and April determines the final "place" of the three finalists, and which award they win. Previous laureates include Craig Kielburger in 2006 and Nelson Mandela in 2005. Announcing the award, a WCPRC press release from Sweden commends Inderjit Khurana of India, as one, "who has run over a hundred schools and two phone help lines for 21 years, helping the poorest, most vulnerable children who live and work on station platforms.

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Jeffrey Modell Foundation, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene ...

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Health researchers in Wisconsin today announced a first of its kind newborn screening study aimed at detecting a rare but often undiagnosed immune system disease that is fatal without treatment and believed by some doctors to be responsible for a number of unexplained infant deaths. The pilot program will be a collaborative effort between the State Laboratory of Hygiene at UW-Madison and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Using residual blood specimens from Wisconsin's nationally recognized newborn screening program, the pilot program will develop the protocols to screen all newborns for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency disease (SCID), sometimes known as "Bubble Boy Disease." The goal is to extend routine screening for SCID to every newborn in Wisconsin, estimated at 70,000 annually.

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