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| This 2007 handout photo provided by the Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) shows Dr. Cynthia Tifft, surrounded by campers, spraying whipped cream on a counselor at Camp New Friends for neurofibromatosis in the Washington area. Summer camps just for kids with chronic diseases are booming _ places to learn about epilepsy or finally meet someone else with Tourette's tics or slice open a cow's heart to see what's wrong with their own. Now fledgling research shows such special camps may offer more than a rite of passage these children otherwise would miss |
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