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TUDCA-ALS has started recruiting in the UK

25 November 201928 August 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesTUDCA-ALS is a European Consortium (funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 grant) involving top researchers from seven countries across Europe (see Figure

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ALSUntangled – untangling the mysteries of alternative and off-label treatments

23 October 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are literally thousands of websites on the internet that make claims about amazing alternative or off-label treatments (AOTs) and even cures for MND but

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Kennedy’s Disease vs ALS: How muscle patterns can aid diagnosis and perform as a novel biomarker

5 September 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from University College London led by Dr Pietro Fratta and Dr John Thornton found that muscle imaging can help distinguish Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

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Focusing on mitochondria – a potential target for early MND treatment?

14 August 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Arpan Mehta, one of our Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellows, and his team at the Euan MacDonald Centre at the University of Edinburgh have

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Could MND be treated by HIV drugs?

17 July 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently published results from the open-label Lighthouse trial investigating safety of the drug Triumeq in people with MND revealed the treatment was safe and ready

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How animals are helping to improve our understanding of MND

26 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes‘From antibiotics and insulin to blood transfusions and treatments for cancer or HIV, virtually every medical achievement in the past century has depended directly or

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FaTHoM 2: UK-leading MND clinicians on inherited MND

20 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter its successful premiere in 2017, the University of Oxford organised another meeting of people affected by inherited MND, called ‘Families for the Treatment of

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Microbiome: is the answer in our guts?

31 May 20193 August 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesExploring the link between our guts and our general health is becoming increasingly popular. Studies of people with various physical and mental health conditions suggest

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Drug repurposing – harnessing the positive side effects of ‘old school’ drugs

27 March 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesIs it possible that a drug that treats congestive heart failure could improve respiration in people with MND? Or that a drug used to treat

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Kennedy’s Disease: focus on muscle damage reveals key biomarker

27 February 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesFindings from the largest biomarker study of people with Kennedy’s Disease, published in the journal Neurology, found a predictive biomarker to help in differential diagnosis

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