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Muscular Dystrophies

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    November 29, 2012

    Cialis Boner Pills Might Help With ... Muscular Dystrophy?

    It's always wonderful when you find out that a previously devious drug has benevolent uses. Like marijuana. Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have come up with a doozy involving a miraculous flip-side for some boner pills. Really:

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    August 4, 2011

    Jerry Lewis no Longer Welcome at Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon (Really)

    Jerry Lewis as 'The Nutty Professor.'​They were known as "Jerrry's kids," those young victims of muscular dystrophy. They're somebody else's kids now. It appears that Lewis has been kicked out his his own telethon, the annual end-of-summer snooze-fest that happens the Sunday before Labor Day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Weak Economy Kills Love Ride 26

    Glendale Harley-Davidson/Buell​While you can't say that Bernie Madoff killed Love Ride 26, but the cancellation of the annual motorcycle ride benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is part and parcel of a collapsing economy whose victims include once-secure charities. The L.A. Daily News re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Jerry Lewis Oscar Protest Looms

    Comedian Jerry Lewis will receive this year's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars ceremony inside Hollywood's Kodak Theater. Outside, however, he may find himself the target of vilification by disability activists. For years Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, broadcast every ... More >>

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