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32nd Symposium: Virtual Healthcare MND Research Treatments

Managing respiration and nutrition in MND

11 November 202120 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is blog number 9 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green type correspond

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Healthcare MND Research Treatments

Optimising NIV care in MND

15 October 202020 October 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Lucy Musson. My name is Lucy Musson and I am a Research Assistant working at the Sheffield Institute for

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Healthcare MND Research News Research we fund

Withdrawing ventilation support at the request of the patient: the ethical, moral and legal issues

17 September 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesMotor neurone disease (MND) can cause weakness in the chest muscles involved in breathing. This leads to shortness of breath and symptoms including disturbed sleep

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Healthcare MND Research Research we fund

Dr Chris McDermott talks about his research at our Annual Conference

26 September 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year’s Annual Conference research talk was given by Dr Chris McDermott and focused on his research at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTraN).

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Healthcare

A summary of the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesI wanted to write a ReCCoB blog about the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session, which is closely related to my interests, not least

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Healthcare MND Research

Care Centre Directors Meeting

18 June 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Wednesday I attended the MND care centre directors meeting. This is where all of the care centre directors, care centre co-ordinators, our regional care development

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