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About the economic interest of the compassionate use of innovative treatments
On 01/02/2022
Italian researchers and a Roche laboratory representative jointly analyzed the economic impact of compassionate use protocols for some innovative health products: two of the eleven…
AcadeMYO 2022: July 11-13, 2022
On 31/01/2022
Save the date! The next session of AcadeMYO, the institute’s myology summer school, will be held from July 11 to 13, 2022, Registrations will open…
A book to explain Duchenne muscular dystrophy to affected children
On 31/01/2022
The team from the Marseille Neuromuscular Reference Centre has designed a small book for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This didactic and abundantly illustrated…
A pilot experiment in neonatal screening for primary carnitine deficiency
On 31/01/2022
Chinese clinicians from Fujian province screened 49 cases of primary carnitine deficiency at birth using a biochemical technique (tandem mass spectrometry). This neuromuscular condition is…
CAP2: a new gene responsible for nemaline myopathy
On 28/01/2022
American researchers have identified, for the first time, a pathogenic variant of the CAP2 gene present in a heterozygous state in a sporadic form of…
Back to the 26th Journées of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve
On 27/01/2022
The 26th “Journées of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve” took place on January 21 & 22, 2022 at the New Cap Event Center…
Myobank-AFM ’s quality certification is renewed for 3 years
On 27/01/2022
Myobank-AFM, the Research Tissue Bank of the Institute of Myology, is a non-profit service involved in the collection, preparation, storage and distribution of human tissue…
ERN EURO-NMD webinar, Feb 3rd: Pr Cornelia Kornblum (Germany)
On 27/01/2022
An introduction into mitochondrial diseases in adulthood Thursday February 3rd, 2022 – 16:00-17:00 (Paris time) Pr Cornelia Kornblum (Bonn University/Universitary Clinic of Bonn, Germany) “Mitochondrial…
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: links between interstitial lung disease and myositis-specific autoantibodies
On 25/01/2022
One of the most common extramuscular manifestations of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies is interstitial lung disease. In addition, the diagnosis of IMI includes the search for…
Evaluation of a reference method to assess the function of the diaphragm
On 25/01/2022
The link between transdiaphragmatic pressure (TDP) and diaphragmatic thickening fraction (DTF) is a gold standard method for assessing diaphragmatic function that is not clearly established. …
Charles Frison-Roche wins Oral Research Communication Prize awarded by SFM – Interview
On 24/01/2022
Charles Frison-Roche has received the Oral Research Communication Prize, awarded by the French Myology Society (SFM). He is a PhD student in the REDs team…
Benefits of wheelchair hockey identified in SMA and DMD
On 24/01/2022
An Italian study of 25 men aged between 18 and 40 with SMA or DMD investigated the effects of playing wheelchair hockey on quality of…
The Institute of Myology is recruiting a Data Project Manager
On 24/01/2022
The Institute of Myology Located in Paris, at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, the largest public hospital in Europe, the Institute of Myology was created in 1996 by…
Circulating neurofilaments: a sensitive biomarker in SMA
On 20/01/2022
An American study carried out in 90 children under three with SMA evaluated the interest of quantifying circulating neurofilaments (NF) to detect the disease and…
Alternative splicing helps control the plasticity of clathrin structures
On 20/01/2022
Depending on cell types, clathrin assembles into plaques or produces spherical structures for some unknown reason, just as we do not know how this plasticity…
A first survey of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy in Mali
On 20/01/2022
The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) continue to be highly heterogeneous neuromuscular diseases, both in clinical and genetic terms. Exploring these disorders in Africa is not…
The assessment of neuromuscular disease patients by physiotherapists is adapting to pandemic conditions
On 19/01/2022
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disrupted hospital organisations, with respect to both care and clinical research. Physiotherapists essentially from the US and the UK report their…
A case of necrotising autoimmune myopathy with inflammatory skin lesions
On 18/01/2022
Necrotising autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is caused by immune system deregulation. The inflammatory component is generally very low key, contrarily to the other types of autoimmune…
A new non-invasive biomarker in SMA
On 18/01/2022
German researchers have developed a new tool intended to visualise and measure muscle loss in patients with SMN1-gene proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Multispectral optoacoustic…
M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 24 January – Florent Ginhoux (Singapore)
On 18/01/2022
Macrophage Biology: From Development to Functions Monday January 24th, 2022 – 12:00 – 13:00 Florent Ginhoux (Senior Principal Investigator, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) Agency for…