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Jailhouselawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
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...
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Same Difference (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
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 [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
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...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
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.
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dead islets (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
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...
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Wei Chieh & Ae Mi's Big Blog of Everything (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
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....
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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Researchers are reporting that injections of genes into the leg muscles of monkeys helped the animals gain muscle size and strength without side effects. The Muscular Dystrophy Association, which funded the research, said the gene-therapy findings, though preliminary, might someday lead to better treatment for people who suffer from muscle loss.
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Monkeys In The News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Monkeys that had a gene injected into their legs developed bigger, stronger thighs in an experiment that may pave the way for human trials testing the therapy in people with muscle-wasting diseases. Several diseases including muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, cause muscle weakness and have no effective treatments, said Jerry Mendell, director of the...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Heidi Miller feeds her son, Mitch Ball, breakfast at their Citrus Heights home as he begins his day last May. The situation of the 24- year-old, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, has improved significantly, thanks to the generosity of people who helped the pair after reading a story in The Bee. Mitch Ball still has a debilitating disease, but his life has improved in ways many take for granted...
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REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
In the United States, researchers and politicians continue to argue the various legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of stem cells, while people in Mexico have been treated with placental stem cell treatment abroad that have been clinically tested by over thousands of patients suffering from a wide number of diseases and health conditions. For non-controversial, non-embryonic stem cell treatment...
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Proceedings of the National Academy (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Defects in nuclear morphology often correlate with the onset of disease, including cancer, progeria, cardiomyopathy, and muscular dystrophy. However, the...
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Proceedings of the National Academy (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Muscular dystrophy is a general term encompassing muscle disorders that cause weakness and wasting, typically leading to premature death. Membrane...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.
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