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• 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]
• Joshua B. Bee of Harrington, Delaware
• Blanch Cuba of Columbus, Nebraska
• Jennifer Getson of Aurora, Colorado
• Kaitlyn Kulesz of Salem, New Hampshire
• William M. Ross of Yonkers, New York


• 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]

Telethon '01 News

• NASDAQ Opening Will Kick Off MDA Telethon [8/28/01]


• MDA Telethon Boasts Hot Music, Big Names [8/28/01]

Telethon News Releases
Get the latest announcements about the show!


• A Labor of Love
• The Five W's
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Telethon Background
• MDA Telethon Keeps Clinics Camps, Research Going


• American Express Supplements MDA Telethon Donations [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) [Document can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat.] [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) [Document can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat.] [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]