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This second center is located in Southern California and is working closely with the University of South Florida (USF) and the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) as part of the overall study team working to develop a treatment for this devastating disease.

We highlight an important differential to consider in HIV-positive paediatric patients presenting with ataxia.

Illness doesn't stop Barry from riding his bike, and his initiative, Cycle Ataxia, is now in its second year.

Neurological examination revealed intact language and cognition, significant bilateral diplopia and nystagmus worse to the right, bilateral dysmetria worse on the left, and broad-based gait ataxia.

The pizza sale was extremely welcome and pupils also manned stalls selling cakes, drinks and snacks as well as Ataxia wristbands.

Ataxia affects the central nervous system, causing problems with balance and coordination.

At AAVLife we have assembled a world-class team focused on driving this program into the clinic to bring true benefit to patients with Friedreich's ataxia.

At a prevalence of 1:50 000 in European populations, it is the most frequent form of hereditary ataxia, although it is rare in sub-Saharan Africans and not yet seen in the Far East (6).

Charity Ataxia UK has launched the 2020 Vision campaign to press for a cure.

Ataxia, which means 'lack of', is associated with movement, balance and speech problems.

Friedreich's Ataxia (FA) is a rare, autosomal recessive hereditary disorder (13) caused by a defect in a recessive gene labeled FXN, affecting approximately 1 in every 50,000 people in the United States (6).

ViroPharma plans to develop and commercialize OX1 as a treatment of Friedreich's Ataxia and possibly other diseases for which OX1 may qualify for orphan drug designation.

Chris Hobson, now 26, was diagnosed with the degenerative condition Friedreich's ataxia when he was 12.

Washington, Dec 13 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that expression of a toxic RNA that leads to Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome is modifiable by genetic or pharmacologic means.

Ataxia UK is a charity to support those with disorders of the nervous system.