Diet has a significant influence on a person’s health status because it determines which nutrients are available for the body to function properly. Depending on the balance between diet and energy, body mass index (BMI) is also significantly influential to an individual’s health. Since the effects of diet on developing…
Positive results are in for Neuralstem, Inc.‘s phase 2 clinical trial “Dose Escalation and Safety Study of Human Spinal Cord Derived Neural Stem Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.” The trial, received by the FDA in…
In trying to determine the basis for volumetric changes seen in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Drs. Venkateswaran Rajagopalan and Erik Pioro of the Cleveland Clinic have used voxel based morphometry to measure motor and extramotor grey matter volumes. The two recently delved into a study,…
Nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD) patients living in the European Union may soon experience relief from their condition due to the European Commission granting PTC Therapeutics, Inc. conditional marketing for Translarna™ (ataluren). PTC Therapeutics may now market Translarna in the 28 Member States of…
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