Singapore, May 5 -- University of Adelaide researchers have started a two-year project to develop the nation's first clinical care guideline for motor neurone disease (MND).

Health Evidence, Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI) Unit Director, Professor Zachary Munn, and his team, took the first steps towards a nationally consistent, evidence-based approach by bringing together key interest holders this week.

The project has been funded and supported by FightMND; the charity established by 2025 Australian of the Year Neale Daniher AO after his own diagnosis with the disease in 2013, Patrick Cunningham, whose wife was also diagnosed with MND in 2013 and the late Dr Ian Davis OAM who was diagnosed with MND at the age of 33.

With ...