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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Clinical Trials MND Research Symposium Treatments

Clinical trials update from Symposium

14 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesClinical trials determine if potential treatments are safe and aim to prove beyond reasonable doubt whether a drug is beneficial. They are therefore the gold

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Clinical Trials MND Research Symposium Treatments

Edaravone trial presentation sparks interest

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesBar a few bacteria usually found hitching a ride on our dental plaque and digestive system, every living cell in the human body needs oxygen.

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Healthcare Symposium

Choices around invasive ventilation

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesMechanical ventilation for people with motor neurone disease (MND) is a sensitive and little discussed topic. Yesterday’s respiratory management session of the International Symposium on

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Healthcare MND Research News Research we fund Symposium

Respiratory support: the big debate on Symposium day 2

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesDifferent ways to support breathing were the main focus of the second clinical session on day two of the Symposium. Researchers from two MND Association

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Our wheelchair project – helping people with MND around the world

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesKaren Pearce, the MND Association’s Director of Care, blogs about presenting the Association’s wheelchair project at the Allied Professionals Forum, which happened prior to the

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 MND Research Symposium

Update on gene therapy approaches to treating neurodegenerative disease

13 December 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery day there are two sets of talks going on at the same time during the International Symposium. On Saturday morning there was a symmetry

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 MND Research Symposium

“To test or not to test”, that is the question

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA huge ‘atlas’ mapping the locations of motor neurone disease (MND) causing mutations within the genetic code has been collated. This has followed years of

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

New ALS gene represents another small step

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt wouldn’t be the Symposium without a new gene discovery. Although technology has allowed incredible advances in the gene-hunting field, this is countered by the

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

Spreading the seeds of an idea: MND disease pathology

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith motor neurone disease (MND), the muscle weakness almost always starts in a single part of the body, with the weakness then spreading to other

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 MND Research Symposium

Improving the classification of ALS – can we make it logical?

12 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday at the International Symposium on ALS/MND Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi (Director of King’s Care Centre and Professor of Complex Genetics at King’s College London) cautioned

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