Research
Current Research
Provided by Professor Allan Bretag, Muscular Dystrophy South Australia, Director of Research
Recent News about artificial “Meat” from Prof. Allan Bretag - Click Here for information.
Muscular Dystrophy Foundation Australia - Useful for finding out about clinical trials and research in NSW and WA. click here to link to the Foundations Research page.
Muscular Dystrophy Australia (Victoria) - A very comprehensive website with much useful information about many different Neuromuscular diseases including a glossary to explain medical terms. click here to link to Victoria’s web site.
Australasian Neuromuscular Network - Relatively new network of Australian and New Zealand clinicians, and scientists involved in Neuromuscular disease clinical trials, diagnosis, registries and research click here to link to ANN web site and click here to read the ANN newsletter.
TREAT-NMD (British/Europeon Organisation) - Includes comprehensive patient information click here to link to web site. Click here to view current Newsletter and click here to go directly to their Research page.
Muscular Dystrophy Association, USA - Click here to view web site. They produce a magazine call Quest, click here to view. It’s Research News page is useful for finding out about clinical trials and research in USA and worldwide, click here to view their Research page.
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, UK - Click here to view web site. Their Research News page is useful for finding out about clinical trials and research in the UK and worldwide click here to view News page.
Muscular Dystrophy France - World’s largest Muscular Dystrophy Association. Click here to view web site. To view site in English you will need to translate to English by clicking on the page tab on the top right hand side of the site and select Translate with live search. Their Research Page is useful for finding out about clinical trials and research in France and Europe, click here to view Research page.
Medline Plus - Includes comprehensive patient information and handouts for printing, click here for the Muscular Dystrophy page.
PubMed - Highly specialised summaries of medical/scientific research publications referencing full text journal articles (free, pay for access or needing a subscription). Click here to view web site. Once on home page in the search tab type in Muscular Dystrophy and select from drop down menu.
Past Research Reports from Professor Allan Bretag, Muscular Dystrophy South Australia’s Director of Research
MDSA Brief Annual Research Report 2011: click here to view
MDSA Annual Research Report 2010: click here to view
MDSA Annual Research Report 2009: click here to view
World Alliance of Neuromuscular Disorder Assciations Prospectus 2009-2012: click here to view