On TV: Morgan Pressel

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Morgan Pressel

Morgan Pressel is a 19-year-old professional golfer who, when 12, became the youngest player ever to qualify for the Ladies Professional Golf Associaton tour. She won her first major tournament in April and was the youngest ever to do that, too. She's ranked among the top golfers in the world.

Pressel's mother died in 2003 of breast cancer and Pressel has been raising money since then for women's cancer research.

Now, her tour sponsor, Callaway Golf, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation are spearheading a campaign against ovarian cancer, highlighted by a November pro/celebrity tourney, the Callaway Golf Foundation Challenge. Pressel will take part, and stopped by The Early Show to talk about it.

Eva Longoria is the EIF ambassador to the campaign.

For more on the Callaway Golf Foundation Women's Cancer Initiative, click here.

To see the Early Show segment,

Sesame Place Theme Park

Millions of us remember growing up with the gang from Sesame Street: Big Bird, Oscar, the Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, and so many more.

Sesame Place, outside Philadelphia, is the only theme park based on Sesame Street.

Its director of communications, Paula Pritchard, stopped by The Early Show, with Elmo and Abby Cadabby.

To see the segment,

For much more on Sesame Place, visit its Web site at www.sesameplace.com.

Genetic Screening And Older Women

An older woman's slim chances of getting pregnant could be made worse if embryos are screened for defects before being implanted into the womb, doctors said Wednesday.

Pregnancy and live birth rates were substantially lower among
women whose embryos were screened compared with those whose were
not, according to a study presented Wednesday at a Lyon meeting of
the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

The findings, which were questioned by some experts, suggest
genetic screening should not be a routine part of fertility
treatment for women over 35.

The research was discussed on The Early Show Thursday by Dr. Lawrence Grunfeld, a specialist in reproductive medicine who teaches at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine (www.mssm.edu/) and is involved with Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (www.rmany.com/index.php).

To see the segment,

For much more on this story, click here.