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Press Release: New Roles for Growth Factors: Enticing Nerve Cells to Muscles, July 18, 2006

Press Release: Surgery Gets Stroke Patients Moving, June 23, 2006

Press Release: Polio-hit, She Toppled a Dynasty, Clement Mesenas, clement@newstoday.com

Post Polio Part of Study on Aging

PPS has been selected as one of four disabling conditions that effect aging in a study, conducted by the University of Washington and K. Warner Schaie. Schaie agreed to present findings from his exhaustive study on aging at last year's Washington State Psychology Association conference, but only if he could bring 26 guests. They ranged from 74 to 101 years old and had stuck with him for a half-century.  They were a handful of the 500 subjects who enrolled in the first year of the Seattle Longitudinal Study in 1956 (for complete article click the Seattle Times. Pay special attention to the sidebar.). . .