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Sarah Spina-Matthews and Farid Farid

'Bastard of a disease': hopes for brain treatments grow

Macquarie University is launching a new Brain Institute and Clinic. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

People living in a vast rural region of an eastern state are four times more likely to have motor neurone disease than the global average but a new clinic is set to reverse the worrying trend.

Western NSW, especially the towns of Oberon and Walgett, recorded the highest incidents according to new research, with patients travelling hundreds of kilometres to seek life-saving care.

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