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Ways to help your kids and yourself cope living with JM

Cure JM Mental Health Coordinator, Suzanne Edison discusses ways to help your kids and yourself cope living with JM. Learn about emotional and behavioral challenges that often come with chronic diseases like juvenile myositis and ways to help patients and caregivers cope.

Why I Walk- Sammie Fish

Why I Walk: Steps Toward a Cure with Sammie Fish

Sammie Fish was 14 when juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM, a rare form of juvenile myositis (JM) changed her life in 2017. A doctor’s warning that she might never reach remission, tied to a lifetime of medication, shook her world. But Sammie, now 21, didn’t back down. Today, she’s a college grad, a new teacher in her dream job, and Co-Chair of Cure JM’s Ohio Chapter alongside her mom. She walks for herself, for kids like her, and for a cure. That’s why hundreds of Cure JM families and friends across the nation join Walk Strong, because every step pushes us toward a JM-free future

Cure JM Partner Researcher Uncovers New Biomarkers. Fionnuala McMorrow. University of Bath, UK

Cure JM-Funded Researcher Uncovers New Biomarkers

With your financial support, Cure JM is proud to have funded Fionnuala McMorrow, a Postgraduate Research Student in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Bath, to embark on a critical research project. Fionnuala’s team analyzed blood samples from the UK to investigate two specific biomarkers (anti-CCAR1 and anti-Sp4) recently identified in U.S. patients with JDM and related conditions

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