FEATURES

• Understanding the Beast Within
  As researchers close in on identifying common risk factors among autoimmune diseases, they're taking giant steps toward predicting and preventing conditions like myasthenia gravis, polymyositis and thyroid-related myopathies.
  
  
• A Life of Passion and Focus
  Meet Nicholas Johnson, a Massachusetts engineer who's MDA's 2004 National Personal Achievement Award recipient.
  
  
• Mind Your Own Business — Work at Home
  It's a dream come true for many with disabilities — working at home and setting your own pace. But do you have what it takes? Meet several who do.
  

• Caring and Comfort
  The choice of many in the later stages of neuromuscular disease, hospice care follows a patient's wishes and assists the family.
  
  
• An Interview With Janet Reno
  The former attorney general assesses the ADA.
  
  
• A Boost in Medicaid Money?
  
  
• No Man's Land in the Men's Room
  
  
  
• MDA Matters
  • Profile: Meet Kenny Chapman
    
    
• As the Wheel Turns —
  Exercise Equipment

• From Where I Sit —
  A Day in the Life