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Recent Examples of cerebral palsy
Alexa explained in her reel that Duke University in North Carolina has been working on a clinical trial for cerebral palsy for over five years and has reported success in thousands of cases.
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Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
This coming-of-age film, based on a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, stars Phoebe-Ray
Taylor as a sixth-grader with cerebral palsy facing the challenges of being in a mainstream
class for the first time.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
Read more At Philadelphia airport, pope blesses, kisses head of disabled boy
Pope Francis kissed the forehead of a boy with cerebral palsy after landing in Philadelphia, coaxing a small smile from the profoundly disabled 10-year-old.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
The girl, who had cerebral palsy, used a wheelchair and was non-verbal, died of hyperthermia as temperatures inside the vehicle reached up to 135 degrees in the summer of 2019, according to a press release from the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Colleton County, S.C.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 17 May 2025
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Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
This coming-of-age film, based on a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, stars Phoebe-Ray
Taylor as a sixth-grader with cerebral palsy facing the challenges of being in a mainstream
class for the first time.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
Read more At Philadelphia airport, pope blesses, kisses head of disabled boy
Pope Francis kissed the forehead of a boy with cerebral palsy after landing in Philadelphia, coaxing a small smile from the profoundly disabled 10-year-old.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
The girl, who had cerebral palsy, used a wheelchair and was non-verbal, died of hyperthermia as temperatures inside the vehicle reached up to 135 degrees in the summer of 2019, according to a press release from the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Colleton County, S.C.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cerebral palsy
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Read more: Prevention & Treatment Diet and Nutrition 14 Sources Pietrangelo is a health writer who has authored two books: one focused on multiple sclerosis and the other on triple-negative breast cancer.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
28 May 2025
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Elected in 2018, she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year earlier.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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Over the next 25 years, there would be 51.2 million cases of measles, 9.9 million cases of rubella and 4.3 million cases of poliomyelitis.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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There is no cure for paralytic poliomyelitis.—
Dr. Céline Gounder,
CBS News,
15 Sep. 2022
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The company is building a brain-computer interface, or BCI, which is able to translate brain signals into commands that can control technology outside the body and aims to help patients with severe paralysis.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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Their bites attack the nervous system, possibly leading to seizures, the inability to walk or the inability to breathe due to respiratory paralysis or extreme swelling in the throat, Willey warned.—
Caleb Lunetta,
Mercury News,
27 May 2025
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Bell’s palsy — which was then written into the show.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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Thomas died April 18 at Salisbury Hospice in Wilshire England, and had been battling progressive supranuclear palsy, daughter Phoebe Court-Thomas told The Hollywood Reporter.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Cerebral palsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cerebral%20palsy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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