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Neuromuscular News
– News CenterStanford patient was first to receive lifesaving drug as an infant
Four-year-old Zoe Harting is doing well after participating in a phase-2 clinical trial of the first drug for a deadly genetic disease, spinal muscular atrophy type 1.
– NBC Bay AreaIce Bucket Challenge Changes Way Charities Operate
Stars and everyday people are getting buckets of ice water dumped on their heads and those same people are throwing out challenges to people to donate to ALS.
– ABC7 San FranciscoDoctors treat multiple generations at Stanford clinic
Doctors at Stanford Hospital are treating multiple generations of families at the same time.
Neuromuscular Videos
Infant at Stanford first to get drug for deadly neurodegenerative disease
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Neuromuscular Multidisciplinary Clinic responds to Ice Bucket Challenge
California Pacific Medical Center’s Forbes Norris MDA ALS Research Center challenged Stanford’s Neuromuscular Multidisciplinary Clinic to the Ice Bucket Challenge. Yesterday more than 30 people from the Neurosciences Department, the Rehabilitation Department, the construction team for the new Hoover Two building project, the Integrative Medicine team and the business development team joined the Neuromuscular Team to respond to the challenge. Neuromuscular Clinic Director, John W. Day, MD, PhD, said a few words about the need for ALS research funding and challenged several other teams to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. Stanford’s Neuromuscular Multidisciplinary clinic cares for ALS patients and their families and is involved in ALS research. For more information about ALS and the Ice Bucket Challenge visit icebucketchallenge.org.