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Reeve Foundation IRC member publishes New Study on Central Nervous System (CNS) Rehabilitation
A paper was published a couple of weeks ago from the Martin Schwab lab at the Brain Research Institute in Zurich. Schwab, as you know…
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The Inn Launches Partnership with NASA
Performing everyday tasks like shaving and brushing one’s teeth poses a number of challenges in zero gravity. At a recent visit from NASA Astronaut Mike…
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Impacting Social Issues by Supporting the Healthy Development of Children and Families
Child abuse and neglect affects over 1 million children every year. Child abuse and neglect costs our nation $220 million every day. Fortunately, organizations…
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Serious Nattitude at RMHC DC
Last week, Kevin Frandsen visited the DC Ronald McDonald Family Room to see some very excited kids on the Hematology/Oncology floor at Children’s National Medical Center. …
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Family from Uganda finds respite at Children’s Inn
Recently a Ugandan family, with three teenagers affected by a seizure disorder called Nodding syndrome, stayed at The Children’s Inn. The disorder strikes at about…
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The Truth About Skin Cancer
Fifteen years ago, Heather Haux, a high school teacher in Long Island, New York, noticed what appeared to be a scrape on her arm. When…
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Yoga For a Cure to Breast Cancer
On February 13, 2014, Maggie DiNome, MD, Director of the newly developed High-Risk Clinic at the Cancer Prevention Clinic at the Margie Petersen Breast Center…
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Team USA Goalkeeper Tim Howard: Comfortable in His Own Skin
By John Strubel Tim Howard is hard to miss. After all, he’s a 6-3, 210-pound goalkeeper who became the face of the U.S. men’s national…
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Why We Need Boys Town
Why do we need Boys Town? Hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S. lose their childhood to poverty, gangs, homelessness and abuse, through no…
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Reflections of a Daughter of a Prostate Cancer Survivor
By Melissa Stewart I can remember sitting in the San Francisco airport on an August afternoon in 2008. I was annoyed because my flight was…
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Mowing for Memories
By Adrianne Philion Sitting in the waiting room, a familiar place he has been before, Jonah watches as children just like him go through the…
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Webinar: Funding Cancer Research in an Era of Fiscal Restraint
Save the date! Prevent Cancer Foundation invites you to their webcast, “Funding Cancer Research in an Era of Fiscal Restraint” on Thursday, July 17 from…
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