CMT Awareness Week makes debut in LER magazine!

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CMT Awareness Week makes debut

(from Market Mechanics section, August 2010 issue)

http://www.lowerextremityreview.com/index.php/market-mechanics/market-mechanics-\

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The Charcot Marie Tooth Association has announced that the first national

Charcot Marie Tooth Awareness Week will be Sept. 19-26.

Radio and television personality Shadoe s, former host of American Top 40,

will be recording a public service announcement about CMT that will be broadcast

on 800 radio stations during the CMT Awareness Week. s does not have CMT

but supports the association.

By Labor Day, the CMTA plans to have posters, brochures, magnets, buttons,

balloons, glow star necklaces available for distribution at awareness events

nationwide. CMTA " Circle of Friends " t-shirts, which say " Working together for a

cure " on the back, are being offered for just $5 as part of the awareness week

promotions; each shirt comes with a free STAR (Strategy to Accelerate Research)

wristband. The STAR initiative was established in 2008 with the objective of

developing therapies for the three most prevalent types of CMT within the next

five years and the ability to reverse symptoms in some patients within 10 years.

For more information, visit www.cmtausa.org.