MDA
- Smith suffers from myasthenia gravis, a sometimes fatal muscle disease that is among the 40 targeted by the MDA.
- In the last six months the agency has: _Proposed exposure limits for MDA, a chemical widely used in construction, that it said would prevent at least 20 cancer deaths a year.
- Prolonged exposure to MDA turns skin yellow.
- Lewis saved some of the most touching moments for the final hours of the show, including a farewell to Mikey Neufeldt of New Berlin, Wis., the MDA poster child the past two years.
- It would cost an estimated $8.2 million a year for all firms using MDA in general industry to meet the limits and about $650,000 a year for construction employers to comply, the government said.
- He said he had "a stake in the outcome" of the MDA battle.
- OSHA, an arm of the Labor Department, proposed setting an exposure limit of 10 parts of MDA for every billion parts of air over an normal eight-hour workday.
- Lewis also said he was "shocked and saddened" by the death last week of the Rev. Paul O'Conner, a Catholic priest from Detroit who was to appear on the telethon to describe his battle with one of the diseases MDA hopes to cure.
- ALS is one of 40 neuromuscular diseases fought by MDA.
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