Media
MitoAction has established a non-profit channel on YouTube where you will find videos from the 2007 Awareness Event as well as links to other videos related to mitochondrial disease.
http://www.youtube.com/mitoaction
Please visit and add your comments to our videos!
Federal Update: National Mitochondrial Disease Awareness week set for September 21-28, 2008
Press Releases
Audio Recordings (right click to save to your iPod)
| Interview with Cristy Balcells September 30th 2007 | Download |
| Meeting: Holiday Stress, December 7th 2007 | Download |
| Meeting: Exercise Intolerance January 4th 2008 | Download |
| Meeting: Committee Chairs January 28th 2008 | Download |
| Meeting: Diability Advocacy Febrary 1st 2008 | Download |
| Meeting: The Mito Cocktail March 7th 2008 | Download |
| Meeting: Dysautonomia April 4th 2008 | Download |
| Meeting: Heat Intolerance May 2nd 2008 | Download |
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Meeting: Multiple Specialists June 6th 2008 Meeting: Pain, July 11 2008 |
I'm Brianna Couture
“What does a person with a severe disability look like? If the image that came to mind was a person who uses a wheelchair for mobility, than you're not alone. But here are the facts: over 26 million people in the United States with severe disability, of those 26 million only 7 million use assistive devices such as a wheelchair, cane, crutch or walker. In other words over 74% of the Americans with severe disabilities do not use any devices. So you can't judge a persons disability by whether or not the person looks disabled. It is invisible.”
Mitochondrial Disease: A new class of illnesses
“Many people have never heard of Mitochondrial disease, but it affects nearly 1 in every 4,000 Americans. NECN's Health and Science reporter Anya Huneke has more on the challenges that those with the disease deal with on a daily basis. Dr. Katherine Sims of Mass. General Hospital joins us to talk about Mitochondrial disease.”