Susan Fitzgerald
By Susan Fitzgerald
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Culture Yale Researchers Sally and Bennett Shaywitz Bust Dyslexia Myths
Sally Shaywitz was home with three children under the age of five when she was asked to take a position at Yale School of Medicine that would focus on learning difficulties. The question of why some kids struggle in school was not exactly a hotbed of medical research in the 1970s, but Shaywitz, a developmental…
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Culture Are Gaucher Disease and Parkinson’s Linked?
Ted Meyer was six years old the first time he got involved in medical research, by donating a sample of bone marrow. He had just been diagnosed with Gaucher disease, and his parents hoped their son’s participation might help him and others with the potentially fatal inherited metabolic disorder. Meyer, 54, is still actively participating…
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