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Show better diagnosis and better record re-cord keeping toy families for genealogical purposes. A prime research center on muscular dystrophy is located in Salt Lake City headed by Dr. Frank H. Tyler, of Salt Lake General Hospital and the University Uni-versity of Utah. Mr. Wooley, a Utah native, has spent most of his business career associated with newspapers and magazines and in fund raising activities. He spent about 20 years in New York City, where he was on the staff of the New York Herald Tribune. During World War II he served on the staff of Yank, The Army Weekly-Muscular dystrophy is an ailment ail-ment in which the muscles degenerate, de-generate, leaving the patient extremely ex-tremely weak. It has varying degrees, and varying ages of onset, on-set, but most often strikes children chil-dren between the ages of 3 and 6, usually becoming fatal in the late teens or early 2t's, Medical science knows neither the cause nor the cure. The Muscular Dystrophy Dys-trophy Associations of America, through its chapters, usually organized or-ganized by counties, fosters research re-search to find the complete means of control of the ailment, engages in public education to facilitate the adjustment of patients, pa-tients, their families and friends, and provides patient service .to facilitate the care of patients by their families. The disease is known to be about 35 per cent inherited. How ever, some authorities believe that it is 100 per cent inherited, but that those cases where no known ancestor was afflicted, the number of generations skipped skip-ped were too numerous to trace. Utah statistics are incomplete, but authorities believe that while the beehive state rate for the ailment is about twice the national na-tional average, this due only to MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY SECRETARY NAMED Peter B. Woolley, of Bountiful, has been named executive secretary secre-tary for the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc., to cover Utah, Idaho and Montana. |