Category: News
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Cal Newport has something surprisingly sane to say about AI — and medicine, and many other topics
David Epstein and Cal Newport discuss the possible impact of AI on medicine and medical diagnostics.
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BILLY’s in Canada now!
Previously it was only possible to get BILLY shoes in Canada through retailers like Brainsport.ca and hsktkids.ca. Now BILLY is shipping from Canada to Canadian customers. Just go to billyfootwear.ca.
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The “First Treatable CMT Disease” is Neither CMT Nor a Disease
CMT-related research may truly do away with CMT disease first by eliminating or updating how naming and classification works in neurological pathology.
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CMTA Toronto Upcoming Events • CMT Awareness Month • Learning to slow down and attend to your needs • Existential anxiety
The Toronto chapter of the CMTA has regular meetings and events that can be joined remotely with Zoom. On Saturday, September 24 from 1-3pm EST their guest speaker will be…
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Walk4CMT is coming up on September 18!
I will be walking as far as I comfortably can in Muscular Dystrophy Canada’s Virtual Walk4CMT on Saturday, September 18 — which is somewhere north of 20km at which point…
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The “first treatable” form of CMT?
I wrote this brief article on the way the SORD gene works (or fails to work) for the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation. SORD mutations cause “the most common autosomal recessive form…
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New Canadian CMT Resources
At some point I’d like to create a page of CMT resources in Canada just to present that all in one place. If you have anything or anyone you think…
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Maybe it will work on CMT..?
It seems the new hope for VM202 as a CMT1a treatment is perhaps Hellxmith’s latest attempt to find a market for an experimental product that has not panned out as…
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A new discovery of a genetic cause (and likely cure) for a previously unknown subtype of CMT2
Published in Nature Genetics last month, the INC group’s findings are a big deal, and there is a really cool story from the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine…
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CMT, COVID-19, and Respiratory Health
A few weekends ago, I listened to the HNF webinar on COVID-19 and CMT with Dr. John Bach of Rutgers University Medical School, a leader in the field of pulmonary…
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ACE-083 Trials Show No Benefit
Acceleron Pharma Inc’s ACE-083 drug trials “did not achieve statistically significant improvements in functional endpoints relative to placebo” with CMT patients, so it will no longer be developed.
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Video short on CMT – Rare Film Festival
This is a great, short video that explains the basics of CMT — made by students at the University of Greenwich for the first “Rare Film Festival,” put on by…
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New Genetic Diagnostics for CMT
Here’s an informative article from the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation (HNF) about current best practices in genetic diagnosis of CMT. A lot of examples are given of people with less common…
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Second Phase 3 Clinical Trial for CMT1A “Pleodrug”
After the setback of having to do a second Phase 3 clinical trial, Pharnext’s ongoing drug trials for PXT3003 show positive results in people with CMT1A.
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Should I play the didgeridoo (or harmonica) to fight sleep apnea‽
Some recent studies on obstructive sleep apnea got attention for concluding something fairly obvious — losing weight and reducing fat in the tongue might be the best treatment for OSA.
