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devoted women, Pickett M. Guthrie of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Virginia N. Wilson of Orange Park, Florida, who launched the nonprofit foundation with their own meager funds in 1992, this debilitating condition is finally beginning to get the attention it deserves. A medical advisory board - 11 physicians distinguished in the field of sleep disorders and chaired by neurologist Arthur S. Walters, M.D., of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - determines the accuracy of medical information provided by the Foundation. A long history RLS, like PLMS, has been around a long time. It was described in the 17th century, but the first detailed study of the illness was conducted in the mid-20th century by a Swedish neurologist, Karl Ekbom, M.D. He was the first to use the term "restless legs" in the medical literature. For a few years the affliction was known as Ekbom's syndrome - which had the advantage of sounding more important than today's more widely used term restless legs syndrome. * SLMR 2.1a * McLean Virginia USA Wed 02-01-95 6:11 pm --- * KMail 3.00y