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The generation of synthetic placebo data for ALS clinical trials

4 August 20224 August 2022Research Development Team

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this guest blog written by Harry Bowles and Sarah Opie-Martin from King’s College London they discuss their MND research poster which was presented at the European Network to Cure ALS (ENCALS) meeting in June 2022. Randomised, double blind trials are the gold standard During a clinical trial, a group of volunteers with ALS are…

X-cell stem cell centre has been investigated by ALS Untangled

12 May 2010Kelly Edwards2 Comments

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the internet providing an expanse of ‘quackery’ jumbled up with facts, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for anybody to know what source of information can be trusted. This issue is especially apparent to us when we add unproven treatments into the mix. An unproven treatment is, quite literally, a treatment that has no reliable proof for…