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MDA News:2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 - 1996

2001

Caution with Anesthesia Urged for Children With Mitochondrial Myopathies
[12/21/01]
President Signs MD-CARE Act Mandating More NIH Emphasis on MD Research
[12/18/01]
MDA Web Feature: Life Imitates Art and Vice Versa for Filmmaker With Dejerine-Sottas Disease
[12/12/01]
Research News: Study Finds Increased Risk of ALS Among Gulf War Veterans
[12/10/01]
MDA Researchers Combine Stem Cells, Gene Therapy in Duchenne MD
[12/10/01]
Best-Selling Child Poet Chosen as 2002 MDA National Goodwill Ambassador
[12/04/01]
Clues to Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy Sought in New Mexico Families
[11/26/01]
Research News: New Study to Probe Role of Environmental Factors in ALS
[11/20/01]
MDA Seeks Volunteers for 2002 Summer
Camp
[11/19/01]
Glutamate Transporter Could Be Key to Better Drugs for Lou Gehrig's Disease
[11/16/01]
MD-CARE Act Passed by Full Senate
[11/16/01]
MDA Researchers Begin Trials of Two New ALS Drugs
[11/16/01]
Airline Accessibility Guidelines Updated Following Sept. 11 Hijackings
[11/15/01]
Research News: Glutamate Transporter Could Be Key to Better ALS Drugs
[11/14/01]
Research News: Breast Cancer Drug Could Become Therapy for ALS
[11/14/01]
Research News: Scientists Report Progress Toward Stem Cell Therapy for ALS
[11/14/01]
Research News: Positive Results In Mice Set Stage for Celebrex Trial In ALS
[11/12/01]
Lithograph by Willmar Artist Accepted By MDA Art Collection
[11/09/01]
Promising Outlook for Passage Of MD-CARE Act
[11/07/01]
Mattie’s on a Roll! - Book Hits #10 on NYT Best Seller List
[11/07/01]
Research News: Neuroscience Conference to Explore Advances In Neuromuscular Disease
[11/02/01]
Research News: New Clues to Muscle Atrophy In ALS, SMA, CMT
[10/26/01]
Research News: SMA Drug Search Gains Ground
[10/26/01]
Mattie Stepanek to Appear on Oprah Winfrey Show
[10/15/01]
MDA Researchers Identify Second Gene In ALS
[10/03/01]
Stress and Neuromuscular Disease
What to Watch for in the Aftermath of Tragedy
[10/02/01]
MDA Offers Flu Shots For People With Neuromuscular Diseases
[10/01/01]
Research News: ALS-Like Disease Attributed to HIV Infection
[9/28/01]
House Passes MD-CARE Act
[9/24/01]
Research News: Gene Therapy Offers Hope for Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
[9/21/01]
Jerry Lewis Supports Fire Fighters
[9/14/01]
Visit the International Association of Fire Fighters
[9/14/01]
Message to America
[9/12/01]
Mattie Stepanek and where to find his book of poems, "Heart Songs."
Mattie is the 11-year-old MDA Maryland Goodwill Ambassador who read some of his poems during the last hour of the Telethon.
[9/7/01]
MDA Holiday Cards Offer Wishes & Hope
[9/6/01]
New Artists Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[9/6/01]
Watertown Disability Leader Selected for MDA National Achievement Award
[9/5/01]
Jerry Lewis Telethon Sets $56.8 Million Record
[9/3/01]
Better DNA Test Finds Virtually All Duchenne, Becker Mutations
[8/31/01]
Research News: Researchers Pinpoint Cause of Insulin Resistance in DM1
[8/31/01]
MDA Web Feature: It Could Happen to Anyone, And It Did To Me
[8/31/01]
Research News: Two New Trials and Biotech Merger May Speed Pompe's Treatment Program
[8/31/01]
Research News: 36 Boys Needed for Expanded Study of Gentamicin In Duchenne MD
[8/31/01]
Research News: Muscle-Related Effects of Anti-Cholesterol Drugs Warrant Attention
[8/31/01]
Led By Don Francisco, MDA National Hispanic Outreach Takes Off
[8/30/01]
CITGO, MDA Race For A Cure At Darlington
[8/28/01]
- NASDAQ Opening Will Kick Off MDA Telethon
  [8/28/01]
- MDA Telethon Boasts Hot Music, Big Names
  [8/28/01]
  
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[8/22/01]
TOPSoccer Gives Everyone a Chance to Play
[8/16/01]
MDA Feature -- A Nice Place to Visit
Making Homes "Visitable" for People with Disabilities [8/15/01]
New Gene Found For Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy -- Unusual Mutation Involved
[8/03/01]
Bennett Named Chairman of MDA Board
[7/31/01]
Tucsonans Named to National MDA Leadership
[7/31/01]
NASDAQ's Tognino Elected to MDA National Leadership
[7/31/01]
Drawing by Great Falls Woman Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[7/19/01]
Self-Portrait by Nashville Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[7/19/01]
Photograph by Edmonds Therapist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[7/17/01]
MDA Seeks Support for Landmark bills in the Senate and House
[7/13/01]
Read the MD CARE Act, House counterpart (H.R.717)
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[7/10/01]
MDA Urges Support of the MD-CARE Act
[5/1/01]
How You Can Help Pass the MD-CARE Act
updated: [6/20/01]
Read the MD CARE Act (S.805)
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[5/1/01]
Jerry Lewis Urges $100 Million Increase in Government Funding to Fight Muscular Dystrophy
[2/27/01]
Watch the video of Jerry's testimony (5:51) [3/2/01]

TESTIMONIES:
Jerry Lewis · Text | Video (5:51)
Leon I. Charash, M.D. · Text
Christopher J. Rosa, Ph.D. · Text | Video (3:18)
Benjamin Cumbo · Video (2:43)

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BIOGRAPHIES:
Jerry Lewis
Benjamin Cumbo
Leon I. Charash, M.D.
Christopher J. Rosa, Ph.D.
Painting by Fresno Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[7/06/01]
Painting by Columbia Hills Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[7/06/01]
Painting by Late Springfield Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[7/06/01]
Research News: Stem Cells Repair Heart Damage in Mice
[6/29/01]
Balloon Wishes Come True For Boy With Mitochondrial Myopathy
[6/29/01]
Ed McMahon Asks Congressional Committee to Speed Muscular Dystrophy Research
[6/28/01]
- Ed McMahon Testimony
  [6/27/01]
- Ed McMahon Biography
  [6/28/01]
MDA-Supported Researcher Saves Respiratory Muscles in Muscular Dystrophy
[6/27/01]
Ed McMahon to Testify for Federal Funding of MD Research
[6/22/01]
Tropical Storm Allison Means an Extra Day of Camp in Houston
[6/13/01]
Research News: Making the Jump to Gene Therapy for Pompe's Disease
[6/4/01]
Research News: More Progress in Gene Therapy for DMD: Slipping Full-Length Dystrophin Past the Immune System
[6/2/01]
Research News: Researchers Put Dystrophin Minigenes to Ultimate Test
[6/1/01]
A Statement From MDA President Robert M. Bennett On A Recent Remark By Jerry Lewis
[6/1/01]
Jerry Lewis Apology
[6/1/01]
MDA Opens Lou Gehrig's Disease Center at St. Joseph's Hospital
[5/25/01]
Vitamin Deficiencies May Worsen SMA
[5/25/01]
Photo by Ellensburg Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[5/25/01]
Treatment of McArdles Disease
by Dr. Ronald Haller
[5/23/01]
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon 2000 Broadcast Journalism Awards
[5/15/01]
MDA Adds to Lou Gehrig's Disease Program During ALS Awareness Month
[4/30/01]
Grana Elected to MDA National Leadership
[4/27/01]
Orthmeyer Elected to MDA National Leadership
[4/27/01]
MDA Supports New Medicare Homebound Law
[4/27/01]
"Iron Horse" Gehrig to Be Featured in TV Ad Campaign
[4/27/01]
Painting by Vincennes Seventh-Grader Accepted By MDA Art Collection
[4/25/01]
MDA Increases Equipment Repair Allowance
[4/10/01]
Mark Kessenich, Businessman and Benefactor, Dies
[4/06/01]
Thousands of Kids Hop to Help Fight Muscular Dystrophy
[4/03/01]
Research News: Coaxing Cells to Read Through Genetic Mistakes Could Provide New Gene Therapy Strategy
[3/21/01]
MDA Scientists Show That Boosting Protein Could Treat Muscular Dystrophies
[3/19/01]
Donate A Shamrock, Help Fight Muscular Dystrophy
[3/8/01]
Research News: New Drug Shows Promise in MG
[2/26/01]
Drawing By Bennington Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[2/14/01]
Painting by Boynton Beach Artist Accepted by MDA Art Collection
[2/12/01]
Research News
New Mouse Model for SBMA
[2/12/01]
ALS News: SSDI Recipients With ALS No Longer Have Wait for Medicare
[2/09/01]
Research News
More about "Super-Mice," MDA-funded researchers have created superstrong mice that are largely invulnerable to age-related muscle frailty.
[2/07/01]
Research News
New Registries of People with MMD, FSHD, CMT Will Help Accelerate Research
[2/07/01]
Jerry Lewis to Testify Before U.S. Senate Subcommitee
[2/16/01]
Painting by Payson Artist is MDA Art Collection's 250^th Piece
[2/06/01]
Wrigglesworth Added to MDA National Advisory Group
[2/05/01]
Creatine Update - MDA Experts Say, 'Take Supplements Only Under Doctor's Care'
[2/01/01]
MDA Researchers Create Super-Mice Resistant to Age-Related Muscle Wasting
[1/30/01]
Friedreich's Ataxia Update - New Mouse Model of Friedreich's Ataxia Created
[1/30/01]
MDA Opens Center at Hahneman for Lou Gehrig's Disease Treatment, Research [1/30/01]
Jerry Lewis' Lifetime of Pain Relieved by Back Surgery
[01/19/01]
Maureen McGovern Leads Shamrocks Against Dystrophy Campaign
[01/10/01]
ALS Update - Medicare Waives Two-Year Wait for ALS Patients.
[1/8/01]

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