| GIVING AND LIVING: Students volunteer to help | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:06:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | For the last 13 years, the Humanitarian Club at North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, an after-school club with about 125 active members, has worked on volunteer projects from raising money to fight muscular dystrophy to packing children's vitamins for a medical mission in Mali. Their upcoming project is Raiders Rake, when students take to the streets to rake leaves for older and disabled residents of Farmington and Farmington Hills. The project starts this weekend and ends Nov. 19. .... | |
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| | | New Drug for Muscular Dystrophy | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:16:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | A new drug called PTC124 has just gone through some trials and had good success with a form of MD called Duchenne Musuclar Dystrophy...."According to data presented today at an international DMD conference in London, in a study of 26 boys with DMD who took PTC124 by mouth for 28 days, significant biochemical improvements were observed, and parents and teachers reported functional improvements in some of the participants. The data were from clinical trial sites at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City."...more there .... | |
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| | | Annual 5K race will help telethon | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:58:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | This story is about the telethon, carnival and 5K race that will take place Labor Day weekend. The money raised will go toward muscular dystrophy disease. NORTH PORT -- With a 5K race and carnival, this year's Labor Day festivities are scaled down from the past. However, the cause is just as great. The North Port Muscular Dystrophy Committee is celebrating its 17th year of raising funds for research on muscular dystrophy and related disease. The benefit will also help send local disabled individuals to camp and purchase wheelchairs. Rod Pawich, a seven-year committee member, is good friends with the owner of Olde World Restaurant, John Zagrobelny. Zagrobelny started the North Port MDA committee 17 years ago. He himself suffers from muscular dystrophy. This will be the second year for the 5K run.... | |
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| | | Nemours' muscular dystrophy center to expand | | Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:07:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nemours Children's Clinic in Orlando will expand the services offered at its Muscular Dystrophy Association Center by partnering with Dr. Ron Davis of Pediatric Neurology PA. Davis will be the MDA Center director and will work with physicians and health care specialists from Pediatric Neurology PA and Nemours to treat patients referred by MDA's Central Florida Chapter and local doctors. .... | |
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