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Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine will present results of a
ground-breaking study on Sunday, April 24 at 4:30 p.m. at a news conference at
the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology meeting in Fort
Lauderdale, FL. This is timed to coincide with a New England Journal of
Medicine embargo.
The meeting is being held at Broward County Convention Center, Room 114
(near the main entrance).
There will be call-in capability at 1-800-791-2345. The TeleConference
code is 67477.
For more information on the news conference, please call Marc Kaplan,
director of communications, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
(215) 285-7540 or Peggy Flynn, director of media relations, The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia (215) 480-8664.
SOURCE The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine