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Month: December 2017

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MND Research Symposium

Catch up on Symposium…focus on causes and treatments

22 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 8 minutesFollowing on from our previous catch-up blog on clinical management talks presented at the Symposium, here is a continuation that looks at talks focusing on

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MND Research Symposium

Catch up on Symposium…focus on ‘clinical management’

21 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesFrom abstracts to posters, pushpins to ribbons, it takes a whole year to get to this day – no, not Christmas, but the 28th International

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MND Research Symposium

Lessons learnt in the past year…update on clinical trials

15 December 201720 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesLooking for a treatment for MND is the ultimate goal of the whole MND community. Unfortunately, as MND is a very complicated disease, it is

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MND Research Symposium

‘There is an app for that’ – the wonders of technology in ALS

10 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the end of a very busy Day 2 of the Symposium, I sat down with my colleagues for a quick chat. After a while,

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

Libraries, Doormen and Harry Potter

9 December 20172 August 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutesI usually travel to London two to three times a month for meetings and lab visits. If I’ve got any length of spare time, I

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MND Research Symposium

Understanding disease variability – the 2017 IPG prize winner

9 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWarmest congratulation to Dr Marka van Blitterswijk of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, winner of this year’s Paulo Gontijo Prize in Medicine. The Award

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MND Research Symposium

It’s that time of the year again… #alssymp

7 December 201720 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt was only one week after the 27th International Symposium on ALS/MND in Dublin had ended when we started the next stage of planning for

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