Reading Time: 10 minutes For the purposes of this blog, ALS should be taken to mean ALS/MND. In September 2020 we published a blog article discussing Dr Rick Bedlack’s unique perspective on ALS reversals. This followed a webinar in which Dr Bedlack presented potential evidence of 48 people around the world who had a confirmed diagnosis of ALS, some…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Could there be a small number of people for whom there is a pause or a reversal in their disease progression? A talk at the Symposium on Friday afternoon from Dr Rick Bedlack (Duke University) looked into this very topic. There have been few studies looking into the changing nature of motor neurone disease (MND) progression,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dr Richard Bedlack is based at the Duke ALS Clinic in America. Back in 2009 he founded ALSUntangled and to start off MND Awareness week he writes about the group and what they’ve achieved in the past five years. ALSUntangled started in 2009 as a method for helping people living with MND (commonly known as ALS…
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…
