A friend of mine, Ricardo Rojas, has proposed establishing Sept. 17
(the birthday of Dr. Guillaume Duchenne, who gave the first clinical
description of the form of muscular dystrophy which now bears his
name) as International Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Diseases
Day. The website for this undertaking is
http://www25.brinkster.com/distrofia/manifiesto/entrada.htm It has
links to a number of interesting sites!