Making the case why profits are necessary for medical innovation: What the protesters don't seem to get is that if they get their way and profits are limited, the pharmaceutical companies will not be able to spend the time or money necessary to find cures for cancer, Parkinson, Huntington's, ALS, muscular dystrophy, etc. And those of use living with these diseases will pay the cost, we will not have...
Bank loses appeal over wheelchair access case The Royal Bank of Scotland has lost its appeal over a ruling that it failed to cater for the wheelchair access needs of a disabled teenager who was awarded £6,500 damages. David Allen, 18, who has muscular dystrophy, took legal action after the bank failed to install wheelchair access at the Church Street branch in Sheffield, close to where he is...
The Royal Bank of Scotland lost its appeal over a ruling that it failed to cater for the wheelchair access needs of a disabled teenager who was awarded £6,500 damages. David Allen, 18, who has muscular dystrophy, took legal action after the bank failed to install wheelchair access at the Church Street branch in Sheffield, where [...]
This is excellent news: The Royal Bank of Scotland has been ordered to carry out £200,000 of work to improve wheelchair access at one of its branches after senior judges ruled that it had breached disability laws. In a test case three Court of Appeal judges ruled that the bank had failed to cater for the needs of a disabled teenager, David Allen, 18, who was awarded £6,500 damages. Mr Allen,...
BY HAMID TURSUNOV Radik Kutluev is now a pale and lean 31-year-old man living in Kyrgyzstan's southern capital of Osh. Before his body failed him, he aimed for a career as an accountant. Muscular dystrophy derailed that dream.
BOTHELL, WA (MARKET WIRE) AVI BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVII), a developer of RNA-based drugs, today announced presentations on the company's exon skipping therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy at the TREAT-NMD / NIH International Conference taking place Nov. 17-19 in Brussels, Belgium.
-observe the general composure: normal,hyperactive,fidegty,restless. -examine the hand: shake hand with the patient,observe sweaty hand check the pulse:brady/tachycardia,AF look for thyroid acropachy(swallon fingers,clubbing,perioteal new bone formation),palmer erythema. assess for fine tremers of out streched arm -examine the eyes: observe from top and side led lag/retraction eye movement. -examine...
While previous studies have indicated a "probable" connection between smoking and ALS, a new study published in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that smoking may now be considered an "established" risk factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The findings come from...
A baby with a rare neuromuscular condition who has been on a ventilator in hospital since birth, known for legal reasons as Baby RB, has been at the centre of a legal debate between his parents - a debate which has now ended with the baby's father withdrawing his objections to the ventilator being switched off. He was born with congenital myasthenic syndrome, a muscle weakness that limits the movement...
Tesco customers are being asked to get dunking to raise at least £1,500 for children with muscle-wasting diseases. The retailer has created this limited edition biscuit exclusively to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Tesco Charity of the Year 2009.
The last couple of years, when I come to my blog I always notice that I haven't posted in a long time, this time no exception and that bothers me a little. I may be the only one but it seems like the diabetic community has become more fragmented. The advent of twitter and facebook has pulled many away (me included) from blogging. Instead, we hear 140 byte snippets about what's going on in people's...
ATLANTA, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, November 16th a check will be presented to the Muscular Dystrophy Association in the amount of $40,464 raised by 60 Hooters Restaurants located in the southeast. The Hooters Girls and employees raised the funds in just 4 weeks through various fundraising events. The check presentation will take place in Atlanta, at the Hooters of Cumberland located at 2977...
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I recently found a game I created back in 2007 for The Big Push (A muscular dystrophy awareness campaign). It's not a game I'm very proud of (First thing I wrote in Flash), but I liked the concept of a wheelchair race where you pressed left to turn right (Left wheel needs to move faster than right wheel you see) and vice versa. And here it is in all its glory: Please forgive me for it being oh-so-crap....
Researchers report that a drug used to treat pneumonia might serve as an effective treatment against a type of muscular dystrophy. They tested the drug pentamidine in mice and found that it appears to combat genetic defects that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy, one of nine types of muscular dystrophy. The muscle-wasting condition is also known as DM1 and Steinart's disease.
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