Giant Eye Symbolizes Research Hope Visits Hospital Scene
A feature recounts Kevin Sharp a brave Columbus area boy with spina bifida and club feet who inspired a research effort into birth defects. His mother Mrs. Gerald Sharp recalls doctors gave him hours to live at birth and credits surgery physical therapy and ongoing study for better outcomes. The story closes with Kevin smiling as he returns from an electron microscope viewing accompanied by his mother.
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Nee Boy
Everan
Columbus
Bevis
Kevin
Signifi
Rere Shah Peanris
Polis
Pengatin
National Foundation
Gerald Sharp
Gerald
Xeni Ohin
Polio Aid Drains March of Dimes Funds Across Years
Basil O Connor notes the National Foundation has exhausted its March of Dimes patient help funds and faces a 45 million dollar task in 1981. Since 1938 the foundation has spent hundreds of millions on direct polio aid and broader research plus education.
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National Foundation
Basil O'Connor
Voluntary
Earth Organization
Ingeborg Cully
New York City
Davey
Boston
March of Dimes Research Grants Highlight Top Scientists
The National Foundation credits its grant program with backing leading researchers who advance polio vaccines and future medical challenges. It emphasizes selecting great minds with proper equipment, noting progress from past breakthroughs to ongoing work on birth defects arthritis and broader fields.
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March of Dimes
Ont & Mort
Haa
National Foundation
Iblic
Toflen
March of Dimes Aid Helps Eric Reach Age Two
Eric Brantier of Palouse Washington celebrated his second birthday with his family after birth defects including hydrocephalus required surgery at 10 months in Spokane. The Whitman County chapter of the National Foundation provided March of Dimes patient aid under its expanded program aiding birth defects alongside polio prevention efforts.
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March of Dimes
Eric
Eric Brantier
Palouse
Wash
Jupiter
Gail
Vanda Brantner
Whitman County
National Foundation
Erle
Snoced Heart Hospital
Spokane
Mark
United States
Hynatulu
Hiio
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Kevins
Kevin Sherp
Grove City
Ohio
Ohio State University Hospital
Tommy Davey
Pn Samman
Rivers
the National Foundation
Dr. Rivers
Albert &. Sabin
Univerity of Cincinnati
Sabin
U. 5
Vonda Brantner
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