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Let’s celebrate! March is NMO Awareness Month and we’re proud to share all of the ways you can get involved and help illuminate the darkness of neuromyelitis optica Join the Campaign Our #IYKYK NMO campaign will last all month long! Be part of the campaign by downloading and sharing our custom media assets on your social […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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It was mid-August. We were leaving Mass General Hospital. I’d been discharged after almost a week’s stay. I was just diagnosed with NMO. It was merely an acronym;the meaning hadn’t yet sunk in. I told my friend as we got into the car, “I’m not sure how yet, but somehow this has to become a good thing.” […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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Local Woman Launches Nonprofit for Autoimmune Disease The Sumaira Foundation seeks to raise awareness of neuromyelitis optica, which affects the spinal cord and optic nerves. By Andrea Timpano | Hub Health | September 10, 2014 10:19 a.m. When 25-year-old Sumaira Ahmed was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica (NMO), a rare autoimmune disease which affects the spinal […]
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