Author to present program about muscle disease

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. -- Dr. Ronald E. Henderson, founder of the International Auto-Immune Disease Research Foundation, will discuss his work in an open forum at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23 at The Radisson Hotel on Pa. Route 18.
His appearance is sponsored by The Mahoning-Shenango Valley Chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America.
The program is free and open to the public.
Henderson, who lives in Birmingham, Ala., is the author of "Attacking Myasthenia Gravis: A Key in the Battle Against Autoimmune Diseases" and suffers from the muscle-weakness disease himself.
He was forced to retire from his medical practice in 1994 due to its symptoms but is now active in the effort to find a cure for myasthenia gravis and the more than 60 other autoimmune diseases.
His foundation is dedicated to research in that field, and all profits from his book go to the foundation.
Henderson was the founder and longtime chief executive officer of Henderson & amp; Walton Women's Center in Birmingham, the largest free-standing obstetrics and gynecology practice of its type in the nation.