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By injecting purified stem cells isolated from adult skeletal muscle, researchers have shown they can restore healthy muscle and improve muscle function in mice with a form of muscular dystrophy. Those muscle-building stem cells were derived from a larger pool of so-called satellite cells that normally associate with mature muscle fibers and play a role in muscle growth and repair.

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On Wednesday 2 July local MP Dave Anderson, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Muscular Dystrophy, intervened during an urgent debate in the House of Commons on Duchenne muscular dystrophy forcing a commitment from Health Minister, Dawn Primarolo MP, to a meeting about service provision for people with the condition.

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Whizz-Kidz is looking for both manual and especially powered wheelchair users from 18 years of age to become Wheelchair Skills Trainers. If you have experience of: - Working with children and young people - Teaching/instruction or training groups - Working with disabled people with various conditions And feel you can communicate effectively, enthusiastically and positively with children of all ages please read further.

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Oxford Brookes University are carrying out a study into the effects of exercise on people with long term mobility problems. They are looking to recruit a few more people with a muscular dystrophy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease to the study. To take part you must live in Oxfordshire, be able to stand and walk ten metres, be available to attend three assessments over six months and be willing to attend one of four gyms at least once a week for 12 weeks.

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Research by Dr Amy Wagers and her team at Harvard University, USA, has shown promise for the use of muscle stem cell as a therapy for conditions such as muscular dystrophy. The researchers successfully transplanted muscle stem cells from healthy mice into the muscles of mice that show symptoms similar to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Although this shows promise for the therapy of human muscle disease, there are many practical hurdles.

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JISC TechDis (Joint Information Systems Committee) has joined forces with the Publishers Association to provide resources which have the potential to transform the delivery of learning materials to disabled students and staff. One of the resources, Publisher Lookup UK, will enable education providers and publishers to source electronic formats of textbooks for students with disabilities more quickly and efficiently than existing processes allow.

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The authors showed that the quality of life of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)patients does not depend on the severity of their physical restrictions. In contrast, it was found that patients who have to be given artificial respiration are more satisfied than patients for whom this is not necessary. Although an outside observer would have expected ALS patients to be depressed, as the disease is so serious, this was only the case for 10% of patients.

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In the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the NHS, the BBC wants to know about the services in your area. What are the issues that are most important to you? What are your experiences of the NHS? You can tell the BBC your real life experiences via their website.

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The largest assessment of people with adult muscular dystrophy has identified risk factors that can lead to sudden death for individuals with the most common form of this disease. The results of the multicenter study, lead by the Indiana University School of Medicine, are reported in the June 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Your ability to walk, swallow food and even breath depends on your brain’s ability to talk to your muscles. Any interruption in this vital conversation is a major threat to your health. A recent discovery by Dr. Robert Brownstone, a neurosurgeon and researcher at Dalhousie University, may help keep the conversation going in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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