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Twitter and MND

Reading Time: 2 minutes With over 140 million active users Twitter has grown up a lot since it arrived in 2006. This means that Twitter can be an extremely powerful tool for engaging, influencing and reaching out to a wide range of audiences across the world. Twitter is a social network (like Facebook and Google+) which allows you to…

Stem cell conference part six: unregulated treatments

Reading Time: 2 minutes The room was crowded at 8am for the first presentation of day two, from Dr Doug Sipp (RIKEN Institute, Japan) on ‘Unregulated ALS/MND treatments and public education’.  Dr Sipp provided an insightful and entertaining overview of the plethora of self-styled stem cell ‘clinics’ and the tactics they employ to attract business. During the talk, the song Snake Oil, by…

Stowe/ Morales treatments are investigated by ALSUntangled

Reading Time: 2 minutes ALSUntangled have debunked yet another unproven treatment advertised on the internet. Publishing these results in a reputable journal is of the utmost importance as it means that their findings can be read and be trusted as a reliable source of information. The unproven treatment that the group of clinician-researchers investigated was the Stowe/Morales treatment protocol…