Muscular dystrophy celebrities

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Mary Tyler Moore is associated with diabetes and Jerry Lewis became a tireless advocate on behalf of those suffering from muscular dystrophy.

Jason Becker. Jason Becker, a renowned guitarist and composer, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at ...

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Jim Raffone, 50, will step into the boxing ring on June 11 to fight for the life of his son, Jamesy, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

As long as there have been widely recognizable celebrities, those celebrities ... Jerry Lewis during a fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy ...

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Alistair Baldwin's Telethon Kid draws on his experiences with an extremely rare form of muscular dystrophy ... celebrity via the 2007 Perth ...

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Darius, an aspiring rapper and star of the documentary, "Darius Goes West," suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a rare genetic disorder ...

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... Muscular Dystrophy Association). In Pictures: Celebrities and Their ... We estimate about a fourth of those on our 2010 list of the biggest ...

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Cooking challenge to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy charity gets the backing of celebrity chefs and celebrities from across the UK.

Crump is vice president of the station that carries Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon each Labor Day weekend. Kit Luce / The Tennessean.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy · Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy ... The celebrities featured in the video include: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ...

Gilbert Gottfried, a stand-up comedian who liked to push the envelope when it came to political correctness, passed away this week at the ...

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Weaknecht was asked to help raise money for muscular dystrophy in a celebrity cow milking contest on opening day of the Berks County Fair, he ...

Proceeds will benefit the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (CDMD) at UCLA. Duchenne is a lethal muscle disease that impacts one in 3,500 boys. They ...

... celebrity days, so he started getting celebrities to come. ... muscular dystrophy, some disease that put her into an assisted living facility.

“That being interesting,” she said, “because it's more common than Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, yet people aren't familiar ...

Information on the celebrities that support Muscular Dystrophy charities. View the full list of celebrity advocates of Muscular Dystrophy causes.

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Born with muscular dystrophy, Ralph Braun began his career in 1966 when he created the first wheelchair-accessible van with hand controls. In 1991, his ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy strikes one in 5,000 boys, weakening their muscles until they lose the ability to move and breathe on their own.

After his death, Eleanor Gehrig actively publicized and raised funds for a related disorder, muscular dystrophy, and a research center at Columbia. Most notably ...

C1209-30, President Reagan and Nancy Reagan meeting with Jerry Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy poster child Christi Bartlett in the oval office. 03/16/1981 ...

Lewis' muscular dystrophy telethons were a Labor Day staple for more than 40 years. From the 1960s onward, the telethons raised about $1.5 ...