functional rating scale

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    ALS Functional Rating Scale

    how accurate is this scale as a way of looking at progression? my son filled this out and he scores a 32, has been experiencing symptoms now (progessive) for roughly a year. I know that the progession can slow, speed up, plateau etc. But how accurate in general? thanks.
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    Minocycline Adverse Effect

    This was in a newsletter from ALS Association I get monthly. Paul Gordon, M.D., at Columbia University working with Robert Miller, M.D., and colleagues in the Western ALS Study Group, presented a Phase III trial of minocycline that showed an adverse effect in the primary outcome, the ALS...
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    ALS Functional Rating Scale predictor

    While surfing the net I came across the following website: http://www.outcomes-umassmed.org/als/alsscale.cfm It contains an easy do-it-yourself method for determining where you score on the ALS Functional Rating Scale (I'm somewhere between 43 and 44 out of 48 depending upon how I judge my...
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