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Contact
Foundation Secretary
Irene Beard
64 Elgin Crescent
London
W11 2JJ
0207 727 3129
What is MND?
Motor Neurone Disease is a fatal condition for which there is no treatment and no cure. In the UK 35 people die from MND every week, and every week 35 people are diagnosed with MND. The average sufferer will live two years, only 10% will survive more than five years. The muscles waste away and the patients die from weakness and paralysis of their breathing muscles. Many doctors regard this condition as the worst disease in medicine.
MND was described by Charcot in 1869. Since then very little has been done.
Figures show that between 1999 and 2004 6000 people died from MND, 4200 from HIV/AIDS and 92 from vCJD. During this time £33million was spent into vCJD, £45 million on HIV/AIDS and £8 million on MND.
'There is no worse
disease than MND’
Dame Ciceley Saunders OMDBEFRCP,
the founder of the modern hospice movement
Motor Neurone Disease is a fatal condition for which there is no treatment and no cure. In the UK 35 people die from MND every week, and every week 35 people are diagnosed with MND. The average sufferer will live two years, only 10% will survive more than five years. The muscles waste away and the patients die from weakness and paralysis of their breathing muscles. Many doctors regard this condition as the worst di
MND was described by Charcot in 1869. Since then very little has been done.