A dozen years ago, Joel Gottesfeld became intrigued with the conclusion of a paper he was editing for the…
Hal Foster, PhD
Hal Foster is a veteran journalist at the Los Angeles Times and other news organizations in the United States and Japan, and a longtime journalism professor. In addition to the LA Times, he worked at the Portland Oregonian and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was executive editor of Pacific Stars & Stripes in Tokyo, and wrote about the war in Ukraine for USA Today. He has a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of North Carolina, and has taught in the United States, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
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Articles by Hal Foster, PhD
Some 10 years ago, Kyle Bryant and his parents, Mike and Diana, were casting about for a way to make…
More than 20 presentations at IARC 2017, the recently concluded International Ataxia Research Conference in Pisa, Italy, focused on treatments,…
Protein replacement is one of several cutting-edge approaches to treating ataxias that generated a buzz at IARC 2017,…
#IARC2017 – Try to Treat Our Hearing, Vision and Everyday Problems, Patients Ask Ataxia Researchers
Many scientists working on ataxia therapies focus on the movement, balance and heart problems that are the hallmarks of these…
Ron Bartek has a long list of accomplishments. He was a West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, worked on…
Filomena D’Agostino will never forget Christmas 2002. That was the day her 20-year-old son, Diego, tears streaming down his face,…
One of the most encouraging developments in ataxia research these days is a surge in therapies advancing to the clinical…
Editor’s Note: The 2017 symposium had to be canceled because of Hurricane Irma, but the Energy Ball event was held…
The first International Ataxia Research Conference, in 2015, was a milestone in the quest to find cures for the world’s 40…