For more information, please visit www. Two Other New Studies Support Use of Hand Sanitizers
in Health Care Settings

MORRIS PLAINS, N., area with
at least one child between 6 months and 5 years old enrolled in day care. In
2004, the eye bank facilitated transplants in 9 countries and 32 states -- all
from eye donors in Colorado and Wyoming.

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Venus Williams Asks American Express Cardmembers to 'Make Room to Heal'; Ronald Mcdonald House Charities and American Express Renew Campaign to Raise up to $60

Each night there are more than 6,000 bedrooms
available around the world for seriously ill children and their
families.

About Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities, a non-profit, 501(c)(3), creates,
finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well
being of children.com/makeroomtoheal

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The "Make Room to Heal" campaign aims
to raise up to $600,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC(R)). It studied 208 families in the Boston, Mass.

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About American Express

Establishment Services is the merchant network of American Express
(NYSE:AXP) , which signs up and maintains relationships with millions
of merchants around the globe that welcome American Express-branded
Cards. A third study, published in the April edition of Archives
of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, supports the Centers for Disease
Control's (CDC) guideline that alcohol-based hand sanitizers should be used in
health care settings to prevent the spread of infection.
The research reported in the "Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent
Medicine" found that use of an alcohol-based hand sanitizer is equivalent to
hand washing with a traditional antiseptic detergent with respect to
decreasing infection rates in neonatal intensive care units, but the hand
sanitizer is better tolerated. Brett Ramsey, executive director of the Fort Worth Eye
Bank, said sending the tissues to the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank makes
sense given new FDA regulations concerning the transplantation of eye tissues. "Behind every eye, organ and tissue donation is the
hope that someone else will benefit," Jacobs said.

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leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel,
financial planning, investment products, insurance and international
banking.
For more information on the Make Room to Heal program and to
donate to RMHC and/or local Houses, please visit:
www.
The first study, published in the April edition of Pediatrics, found that
use of an alcohol-based hand sanitizer was associated with a reduction in the
transmission of respiratory illness in families with children in day care.
"Consistent with previous findings, these studies suggest that alcohol-
based instant hand sanitizers may play an important role in preventing the
transmission of infectious diseases," said Dr.

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RMHC has more than 245 Houses around the world that range in size
from a four-bedroom House in Vienna , Austria, to an 84-bedroom House
in New York City.

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From May 8th through June 19th, American Express will make a
donation to RMHC for every purchase made on an American Express Card
at participating merchants in the United States and Canada. "American Express is proud to
again join with our Cardmembers and merchants to support Ronald
McDonald House. A
second study published in Pediatrics concluded that there was a significant
association between the regular use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers and
decreased risk of gastrointestinal illness in hospitalized children undergoing
elective surgery .
In a Reuters story on the study, the lead author, Dr. Referring to the CDC guideline which calls for
the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers in health care settings, the study
author Dr .

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, Three new research studies,
published in the current editions of leading medical journals, demonstrate
that using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer is associated with a reduction of
reported illness ."

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The Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank was established as a nonprofit
organization in 1982.

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and Canada simply by using their
card for everyday purchases. Headquartered in
Morris Plains, New Jersey, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare is the world's second-
largest consumer healthcare company, with a portfolio of market-leading brands
that also includes Listerine(R), Neosporin(R), Benadryl(R), Sudafed(R),
Visine(R) and Rogaine (R).

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Donations are not tax deductible for Cardmembers
and will be based on a $0.
"Keeping families close during treatment is so important not just
to the health of children, but to the health of families as well,"
said Ayesha Almeida, vice president, Marketing and Development,
American Express Establishment Services.
The research on families reported in Pediatrics was reviewed and approved
by the Institutional Review Boards of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard
Pilgrim Health Care.

Colorado Eye Bank to Assist Texas Eye Donors

The arrangement also significantly
expands the opportunity to donate tissues for transplant to families who would
not otherwise have the choice. For families whose loved ones die outside a
hospital setting, however, the option to donate hasn't been routinely
available. Edmund Jacobs, the eye bank's
executive director, said the goal is to ensure that the donor's intent to help
another is fulfilled.

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RMHC will
use the funds to create new Ronald McDonald Houses or expand existing
Houses in local communities so that more people in need can benefit
from RMHC services. Alcohol-based hand gels can be a part of that.

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RMHC and its
global network of local Chapters have awarded more than $400 million
in grants and program services to support children around the world. Purell(R) Instant Hand Sanitizer is the world's leading
brand of alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

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"Ronald McDonald House Charities' ongoing mission is to improve
the health and well being of children," remarked Ken Barun, president
and CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities .mylifemycard. Pfizer did not sponsor or provide
product for the reported studies.
Children frequently contract respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses in day
care settings, and then may infect their families with the illnesses through
hand contact at home. No coroners in Colorado have any similar arrangements
for eye donation.

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"Working with Ronald McDonald House Charities, I've learned how
important it is for families to be together while their child
undergoes treatment," said Venus Williams, tennis champ and ambassador
to Ronald McDonald House Charities."
The Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank is one of the country's largest.

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RMHC makes an immediate, positive impact on children's
lives through its global network of local Chapters in 48 countries and
its three core programs: the Ronald McDonald House(R), Ronald McDonald
Family Room(TM), and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile(TM).J. Since 1998, hospitals have
operated under federal rules mandating all deaths be evaluated for donation
eligibility and that, if eligible, the next-of-kin is given the option to make
an eye, organ or tissue donation. Working with the medical examiner serving the area, the Fort Worth
Eye Bank ensures these families will have the option if their loved one is
eligible to be a donor.

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Program Offers More Families the Option to Donate Needed Tissues for
Transplant

DENVER, The Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank in
Denver will serve as the distribution center for eye tissues donated to the
Fort Worth Eye Bank.

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"Ronald McDonald House has provided an invaluable service to our
family and has been a home away from home during our child's time of
need," commented Robin Dunnigan of Tarpon Springs, Florida, whose
family has spent nine months in a New York City house while her
daughter undergoes treatment for leukemia .

New Study Shows Use of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Reduces Respiratory Illness in Families

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Pfizer Consumer Healthcare markets
Purell(R) Instant Hand Sanitizer products.
The study found a strong association between the frequent use of alcohol -
based hand sanitizers and a decreased rate of secondary transmission of
respiratory illness.

"We'll now work to make
that happen for those donors and families in Fort Worth just as we do our
donors and their families here in Colorado.

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01 donation per American Express transaction
at participating merchants. Elaine Larson of the Columbia University School of Nursing, as
reported to Reuters Health , said, "We confirm that (the CDC guideline)
warrants widespread application.
Eye tissues recovered through the new program will be sent to Denver for
recipient matching.

Housing provided by the Ronald McDonald charities for seriously ill children and their families who must travel great distances for medical care.

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"As an American Express
Cardmember, I'm proud to be able to help offer even more families a
home away from home through the 'Make Room to Heal' program. Its programs are grassroots-driven to enable the
Charity to offer help where children need it most - right in their own
communities .

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Business Editors

NEW YORK----For the second consecutive
year, American Express(R) announced its commitment to help support the
"home-away-from-home" provided by Ronald McDonald House for children
being treated at hospitals around the country as well as their
families who travel with them.rmhc. Qing Li, Director of
Dermatology, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.

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Grace Lee of the
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston, said, "Close attention
to hand hygiene is important for preventing the spread of colds and stomach
flu in the home. Under the agreement, the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank
will evaluate and match the tissue with recipients waiting for a cornea
transplant through its worldwide network.
The Fort Worth program focuses on deaths occurring outside of hospitals,
such as traffic accidents or at home, by offering the option to donate through
the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. Its mission is to fulfill the wishes of eye donors and
their families to help another overcome blindness through transplantation and
medical research.

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"For the second year in a
row, American Express and its Cardmembers will be improving the lives
of countless families in the U.S. American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel,
network and financial services provider founded in 1850."
The second study reported in Pediatrics on hospitalized children found an
association between the access of health care workers to alcohol-based hand
sanitizers and fewer gastrointestinal infections in their patients. The study
included data from 31 children 's hospitals and more than 48,000 patients and
was conducted by the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in
Seattle, Wash.
"The regulations are sweeping," Ramsey said, "and as a new eye bank, it is
more cost effective and efficient for us to channel the placement of tissues
through an eye bank with the infrastructure and regulatory procedures already
in place to match tissues with transplant recipients.

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