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Researchers from France, the United Kingdom and Italy report recent findings in neurology

Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 13th, 2006

Neurology research advances have been reported from France, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Study 1: Three patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and a polyneuropathy resembling chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) may help elucidate disease pathogenesis.

"We report three patients with a syndrome that fulfilled clinical and laboratory criteria for definite CIDP who failed immunosuppressive treatment and eventually developed progressive ALS. Mean disease duration was 23 months (13-38) before death," scientists in France reported.

"Two patients had a family history of ALS without mutations of the...

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