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Community Rallying For Teen Girl From Newark Battling Rare Brain Condition Community Rallying For Teen Girl From Newark Battling Rare Brain Condition
Community Rallying For Teen Girl From Newark Battling Rare Brain Condition A 13-year-old student at Newark's Science Park High School is coping with Brain AVM  (arteriovenous malformation) and a family friend has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help defray recovery expenses.  Emilia Santos is a "fantastic student" who, along with her mom Dina, are "pillars of the community," the campaign's organizer wrote. Her condition -- which typically emerges sometime after age 10 -- causing bleeding in the brain and spinal cord.  She is currently hospitalized for treatment of the condition, which can cause symptoms including seizures, brain damage and stroke if…

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by Paul Milo