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The Hudson Valley Cerebral Palsy Association in Brewster, NY, is facing a federal lawsuit after a man the organization hired reportedly sexually assaulted a woman with cerebral palsy. Lohud reports that Joseph Faraone, a former priest who previously won $1 million in a lottery, was convicting of sexually assaulting a 50-year-old disabled woman with cerebral palsy while he […]
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A little girl with cerebral palsy and spastic diplegia walked for the first time into her father’s arms and in while on the national television show, This Morning, after a successful operation. DailyMail reports that Esme Hodge, a 3-year-old from Thornbury, Bristol, in England, was diagnosed with was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and spastic diplegia last year when she […]
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The boy who defied odds after a 1999 shooting that left his mother dead and left him with cerebral palsy and brain damage is now a happy, adjusted adult who loves to smile and talk. Chancellor Lee Adams, the son of former NFL football player Ray Carruth, has been raised by his paternal grandmother after […]
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A little girl with cerebral palsy, who has lived in the U.S. since she was an infant, is facing deportation following a life-saving surgical procedure in a Texas hospital. Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports that Rosamaria Hernandez, 10, and her cousin were in an ambulance, en route from a Laredo hospital to the Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi […]
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Smoking cigarettes has been proven to detrimental to your health, as well as your baby’s health if you are pregnant. New scientific studies also show that women who smoke while pregnant increase the risk of having a child with cerebral palsy. According to News Medical Life Sciences, smoking during pregnancy exposes unborn babies to dangerous […]
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After studying infants in Sweden born between 1997 and 2011, researchers from the University of Michigan concluded that being overweight during pregnancy increases the risk of having a child with cerebral palsy. Medical Xpress reports that analysis of the data comprised by the researchers strongly indicated a link between being obese during pregnancy and cerebral palsy. […]
