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Cerebral Palsy News Archive28-Feb-2007
Apartment fire: Girl with cerebral palsy injured (14 WFIE Evansville) Update, Sun. 3:45 pm: The family of a little girl, critically injured in a fire, speaks out exclusively to 14 News.
Cerebral Palsy Center has critical shortage of help (Post-Tribune)NEW CHICAGO -- It takes many volunteers to make the cerebral palsy Center of Northwest Indiana succeed in its service to children and adults. According to center spokeswoman Michelle Higel, in 2006, the 141 volunteers worked 2,462 hours. The year before, 125 volunteers put in 1,465 hours.
EpiVax wins NIH grant for better Botox (BizJournals)EpiVax Inc. of Providence, R.I., has received a grant to re-engineer botulinum toxin (Botox), a protein that is primarily known for its use in smoothing wrinkles but which is also used as a treatment for movement disorders categorized as "dystonias," such as Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy.
When We're in the Halls, Remember: I Can Hear You (The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)Chandler's column
Food Lion raises $9M for nonprofits (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Supermarket chain Food Lion raised and donated more than $9 million to nonprofit organizations in 2006.
Deejay overcomes disabilities for dreams (The Daily Gamecock)When deejay David Leikam speaks, his voice is halting and strained. But while his vocal cords are impaired by cerebral palsy, he communicates in ways far richer than words.
Related Items (FOX6 WBRC-TV Birmingham)BIRMINGHAM , Ala. (WBRCTV MyFoxAL.com)?A 16-year-old student from Oak Mtn. High School will receive national recognition for a good deed. For more than a decade we have reported on the challenges Zach Woolley faces from Cerebral Palsy.
Judge Rules Against City in Education Case (WNYC New York Public Radio)A federal judge has ruled that a 23 year old woman with cerebral palsy can continue her costly education program at the city's expense. WNYC's Beth Fertig has more. Alba Somoza graduated from a city....
Rhode Island Biotechnology Company Receives $ 368K Federal Grant to Reengineer Botulinum Toxin Using ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) PROVIDENCE, R.I.----EpiVax, Inc, a leader in genome-derived vaccines, announced today that it has received a grant to reengineer botulinum toxin, a protein that is used for cosmetic purposes and which is also used as a revolutionary therapeutic for movement disorders categorized as "dystonias" such as Parkinson's Disease and Cerebral Palsy.
Abilities of 250 highlighted as part of Disability Awareness Month (Journal and Courier)Kurtis Schnepp doesn't let cerebral palsy keep him from working at Wabash Center Inc.
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