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March 2017
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March 2017
CMV Mom Hopes to Spread CMV Awareness at Mrs. America Pageant
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2/8/2023
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Advocacy
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Awareness
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Community
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Parent Perspective
CMV mom Kelsi Gagne is participating in the Mrs. America pageant in April. She plans to use this platform to increase awareness and health literacy of cCMV. Read more about her journey.
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Tech exec/CMV dad discusses raising CMV awareness online
Posted:
3/27/2017
Category:
Awareness
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Parent Perspective
Silicon Valley executive Wade Chambers has not only sat on the board of directors of both the National CMV Foundation and Stop CMV, but he also has twin daughters born with congenital CMV. Wade's professional past in tech has seen stints at Netscape, AOL, Opsware, and Yahoo, but his current role is serving as a Vice President of Engineering for Twitter. We sat down with Wade to get his insights into how the issue of CMV can leverage exising and emerging technologies to raise awareness and encourage advocacy.
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International CMV consensus report published in the Lancet
Posted:
3/14/2017
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Awareness
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Clinical
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Fueling Our Mission
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Prevention
A consensus report from the International Congenital Cytomegalovirus Recommendations Group was recently published in the UK medical journal, the Lancet. The report, entitled “Congenital cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy and the neonate: consensus recommendations for prevention, diagnosis, and therapy”, is the result of an international consensus meeting held in Brisbane, Australia at the 5th International Congenital Cytomegalovirus Conference.
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