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MDA’s award-winning bimonthly national magazine goes to everyone registered with MDA, as well as to MDA clinics, researchers and subscribers.
Quest publishes articles on all aspects of living with a neuromuscular disease, and updates on research findings. Quest’s circulation is 125,000.
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Check Out the New Digital Version of Quest! |
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Game to Get Away
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Online games provide an alternate world
in which to play, say gamers with neuromuscular
diseases. Here’s a primer of terminology,
gaming options, social tips and
info on how playing may affect muscles.
In addition, Kid Quest, page 69, provides
Internet gaming safety tips for kids.
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Stories by Topic
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QUEST
Volume 6, Number 4, August 1999
COVER
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FEATURES |
- Hard to Swallow: The Dangers of Dysphagia
Neuromuscular disease can interfere with the seemingly simple but vital act of swallowing.
- Mitochondrial Myopathies
An endless variety of things can go wrong with the mitochondria, the energy plants within each cell. The first article of a series looks at some mitochondrial diseases that affect muscle.
- College: As Good as It Gets
MDA National Youth Chairperson Mandy Van Benthuysen reports on her fantastic freshman year -- a time of fun, hard work and growing independence.
- Voice of Tomorrow
Speech therapists and computer users offer some guidelines for choosing the best technology to help you write or speak.
- Hardly Working
Why aren't more people with disabilities employed? According to Quest readers, a major reason is the fear of losing Medicare and disability income benefits.
- A Busy Year in Washington
Some landmark Supreme Court decisions, the ongoing health-care debate and other issues have kept disabilities in the forefront this year.
- Research Updates
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