Neuromuscular Disorders
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 95-96 , February 2010

Clinical myology at the crossroads; the gospel truth

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☆ This Editorial is dedicated to the memory of Richard Edwards (1939–2009), personal friend, outstanding physiologist, clinical scientist and physician, an enthusiastic therapist and researcher in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and campaigner for clinical excellence, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack on 5th December, 2009.

PII: S0960-8966(10)00043-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2010.01.007

Neuromuscular Disorders
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 95-96 , February 2010

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