KEARNS -- This weekend, Rocky Mountain Raceway is hosting a National Monster Truck eventThe raceway expects thousands of fans to attendOne young boy from Kearns won't be able to attend, but that didn't matter Friday morning when two huge big rigs went to visit himOn October 27, 1998, Melanie Han

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Builder, Phill Cowley, aims to raise over £1,000 for the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, by travelling coast to coast across Britain by kayakWeather and tide conditions permitting, Phill will set off from Cleethorpes, at the mouth of the Hu

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The 44-year-old Sunshine Coast electrician has Pompe disease, a rare degenerative muscle disorder which if left untreated leads to immobility and death by respiratory failureThere is a fortnightly treatment, Myozyme, and until recently this was provided free to 16 Australians by its maker Genzyme

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Fundraising boxers are to hit the steep slopes of the country's highest mountain for a charity bout, organisers revealedSeveral fighters, including the country's first female professional boxer, have been lined up for the uphill battle on the summit of Carrantuohill on SaturdayPromoters are plann

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BILLINGS -- About 90% of people diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease are over age 50, with age 40 considered Young OnsetOne Montana woman, diagnosed at age 25, seeks to inspire others by conquering her diseaseTwenty-nine year old Brandi Roman has lived with Parkinson's Disease for the past four yea

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DENTON -- Like most college students, Jamie Schanbaum loves riding a bike, but she steers with hands missing fingers and pushes with legs fitted with prostheticsSchanbaum is the poster child for what bacterial meningitis can do to the unvaccinated. She contracted the disease as a sophomore at the

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Shannon Tootill was a beautiful babyAlways smiling, the blonde-haired cherub walked and talked right on schedule, and learned the alphabet by age 2. But by age 4 she began lagging behind other children, talking less and forgetting skills once learnedAs Shannon got steadily worse, An and David Too

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Shane Blamires deals with quality-of-life issues dailyAs a respiratory therapist, his job is to make life for people with chronic ailments as comfortable as possible. But, as an alkaptonuria patient, he struggles with managing his own disease with very few treatment optionsBlamires, a 38-year-old

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In Uganda the dilemma of a sickle cell sufferer and the immediate family goes beyond grappling with the overwhelming health effects of the diseaseThe deeply-rooted stigma from society alone causes families to sometimes hide their sick for fear of being labeled cursed and eschewed from social funct

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There are hundreds of birth disorders, and the number of kids and families affected grow every yearMany families also face the difficult problem of dealing with disorders that can’t be identified, or sometimes even misdiagnosed. That’s where Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones comes inDr. Jones i

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