Posted By
Najib
Oct 29, 2022 05:24
I'll be honest, I've never heard up until now about the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare neuromuscular disease which affects around 3 million people worldwide. There's no treatment yet for the CMT disease and its symptoms range from walking difficulties, weakness in legs and muscles, hammertoes to ankles giving and losing the ability to run. It took 10 years of doctor consultations, CT scans and tests for Charbel Gemayel, the founder of Socking Clumsy, to get…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 07, 2022 04:29
As part of Pfizer's #WorldCancerAwarenessMonth2022 campaign, Tony Maalouf produced this powerful animation to illustrate how a supporting network can make all the difference in a cancer patient’s life. This support can be given in the form of medical advice from a doctor, care from a loved one, or understanding from cancer patient associations. I've been meaning to write a blogpost about Tony's work for quite some time, and I'm almost reposting his animation on Instagram.…
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