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Missing From This Year's MDA Telethon: Jerry Lewis

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:13:32 CDT

It's the end of an era: He's been the Muscular Dystrophy Association's national chairman since the early 1950s and the host of its Labor Day telethon since 1966. But as of this year, Jerry Lewis is neither—and he won't even be appearing on this year's telethon. The comedian announced...

Jerry Lewis Raises Record $64M

Colleen Barry — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:17:29 CDT

Comedian Jerry Lewis certainly didn't take the day off: his 42nd Labor Day telethon yesterday pulled in a record $64 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "We did it. We did it. We can go shopping," enthused the 81-year-old showman after pulling in $3 million more than last year's high....

Drug Targets Hundreds of Disorders

Peter Fearon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:42:13 CDT

A magic bullet that could treat cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, hemophilia and more than 1,800 other genetic disorders could be available by 2009. Lee Sweeney of UPenn, leader of the team developing the drug, tells the Times of London: “It doesn’t just target one mutation that causes disease, but...