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October, Spina Bifida Month

October focuses on Spina Bifida awareness. Doctors are still not sure of what causes the disease but agree that there is a strong hereditary component in the disease being passed on from generation to generation. Many studies show that mothers’ whose diet does not include sufficient folic acid in their blood before conception, a vitamin which is
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Greetings, and welcome to the 18 October, 2007 Neuromuscular Diseases Newsletter
This free newsletter is put out weekly and provides a wealth of information for anybody living with or interested in Neuromuscular Diseases and the effect it has on people’s lives.

Who decides which month should be dedicated to which disease?
How does the awareness spread during those weeks, benefit the cause when the month has ended?

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Until next week, take care of yourself and your loved ones.

Thoughts for the week:

Love is not blind, love sees more, and it is because it sees more, that it is willing to see less.
- Anon

Life shouldn't be measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anon

- Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible
- Anon

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