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.
Day: 13 December 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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