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KANSAS CITY, Kan. —Research into amytropic liver sclerosis, the disease which afflicted Leu Gehir, took a step forward yesterday when the regional Research Center was dedicated to University of Kansas Medical Center.
University officials, the head of the Kansas City ALS chapter, George Brett of the Kansas City Royals and Kirk Harden of the Minnesota junior, spoke at the dedication ceremony.
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ALS, a disease that paralyzes nerves
in the spinal cord and brain, strikes middle-aged Americans, leaving them without movement and paralyzing the respiratory system.
This research center, one of 12 in the United States, will be used by the Med Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
DAVID WAXMAN, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center, began the dedication ceremony with a pledge to continue medical research.
"As federal dollars for research decrease, we have to take up the slack in many necessary areas," Waxman said yesterday. "We have a definite
Donations almost entirely finance the ALS center. In November the ALS Society of America's Kansas City chapter began a $600,000 fund-raising campaign to support the center for the next three years.
commitment into the research, cause and cure of this dreaded disease."
Later in the dedication ceremony, the ALS center received a boost toward its facility.
Worthington and two other members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity presented a check for $7,000 to Dewey Ziegler, head of the ALS center.
Over the last three years, the fraternity has donated more than
ZIEGLER, chairman of the neurology department at the Med Center, explained ALS
$16,000 from its annual basketball tournament.
"ALS is not rare; nearly 250,000 Americans now suffer from it and it is a progressive disease killing nerve cells that keep muscles alive," Ziegler said.
There is no known cause for ALS, Ziegler said. There is no known infection, chemical imbalance or toxic substance that could cause the disease, he said. ALS and nodularity
"Science advances by indirection," Ziegler said. "Evidence found will
apply to other diseases of the central nervous system as well."
Besides looking for a cure, research is going on in other areas, Ziegler said. The symptoms of the disease—difficulties in swallowing and breathing—are some of the problems being investigated.
H. Eames Bipha, president of the A.I.S Society of America, was unable to attend the dedication because of the Tuesday death of his wife, a victim of ALS.
Brett had met Keth Worthington, Kirk's father, who working on a promotion for a Kansas City clothing firm. Worthington, an ALS patient, was
bice president at the store when he and Bruce became friends. Worthington is now president of the Kansas City chapter of the ALS society.
Brett, deviating from a speech he said Worthington had prepared for him, praised the courage and determination of Worthington.
"If any man deserves a standing option, Mr. Worthington does," Brett said.
The crowd stood and clapped.
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Worthington, who is confined to a wheelchair and breathes with the aid of a respirator, spoke with difficulty to the people for their support of ALS research.
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