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The consultant for the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Chief Medical Advisory Team and associate professor of neurology at Columbia University offered his perspective on some of the latest news in ALS.

The newly appointed director for the Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital details his personal responsibilities and the long-term goals for the new center.

The staff neurologist, Vice-Chair of Operations, and Quality Improvement Officer at Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute detailed his experience managing patients with various conditions through a telemedicine platform.

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Cure SMA joins the list of influential and impactful organizations within the Strategic Alliance Program.

The staff neurologist, Vice-Chair of Operations, and Quality Improvement Officer at Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute discussed the institute’s transition to telemedicine and how it has been utilized.

The new data further cemented the therapy’s consistent safety profile from previous studies as well as demonstrated a newfound durability in patients with later-onset spinal muscular atrophy.

The newly appointed director for the Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital gives an overview on what neurologic disorders the new center will focus on.

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Finkel discussed his new role at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he'll head up the new Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics.

The FDA-approved treatment was associated with a clinically meaningful delay in needing continuous ventilation among patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Data showed that Ovid Therapeutics’ gaboxadol, also known as OV101, was well-tolerated and had a significant effect on secondary behavioral end points in the 3 combined study groups.

Early treatment with Ionis Pharmaceuticals’s inotersen resulted in greater long-term disease stabilization than delayed initiation.

This retrospective cohort study suggests that rituximab is more effective than conventional immunotherapy and might most impactful if initiated within 12 months of symptom onset in myasthenia gravis.

The assistant professor of neurology at the University of Washington in St. Louis discussed the need for a systemic, multi-specialist approach to cerebral palsy and provided the main takeaways from her and her colleagues’ work.

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The assistant professor of neurology at the University of Washington in St. Louis detailed the ­­factors that may contribute to these inconsistencies in cerebral palsy diagnosis and what role neurologists should play.