John Newsom-Davis
Physician, Academic
1932 – 2007
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Who was John Newsom-Davis?
John Michael Newsom-Davis CBE, FRCP, FRS, FMedSci was a neurologist who played an important role in the discovery of the causes of, and treatments for, Myasthenia gravis, and of other diseases of the nerve-muscle junction, notably Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome and acquired neuromyotonia. Regarded as "one of the most distinguished clinical neurologists and medical scientists of his generation," he died in a car accident in Adjud, Romania, having visited a neurological clinic in Bucharest earlier the same day.
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