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University of Pennysylvania physician Frederick Kaplan provides commentary on 'Tin Soldiers' as the world's leading FOP researcher. We need to find everyone with FOP wherever they are to end isolation, to prevent harm, to lessen...
After nine months of filming, Odette Schwegler finally wrapped up filming a story that she hoped would do more than entertain, and instead start a global search for those living with a rare but challenging condition known as...
One of the films to be screened at the inaugural Knysna Film Festival has bagged a prestigious honourable mention in the Feature Documentary category at the 2019 Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Awards on 10 October...
Thozamile Mciki was just eight months old when his body began to build a second skeleton. Of course, he doesn’t remember this because he was only a baby when this started, but, today, at the age of 53, his entire body has...
Thozamile Mciki suffered a great injury at just eight months of age. While alone in the bedroom, he was injured after falling off the bed and onto the cold, hard floor. But little did his family know that this would soon be the reason for...
Imprisoned by a second skeleton, 53-year-old Thozamile Mciki is a “tin soldier” with a heart. Mciki, of Gugulethu in Cape Town, is the oldest known patient in Africa with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). He is one of 900 people...
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