RLS

The RLS Awarenwss Day will be held on 2013-09-23. This date is the birthdate for Professor Karl-Axel Ekbom. He was born in 1907-09-23.
RLS Foundation, active in Canada and the USA works togeteher with EARLS and other important organization in RLS as EURLSSG, IRLSSG, WASM to create a specific date for RLS. There will be sent out press releases to important newspapers and TV-broadcasters with the hope to get as much comunication possibilities as possible. A lot have been done for RLS during the last years. But the most important activities have still to come. There is only symptomatic treatment. A cure for RLS has still to be developed. Therefore more research and development to find better symptomatic treatment and finally a cure for RLS have very high priorities. Information about RLS to patients and doctors have to be intensified to give RLS patients better medicines and better quality of life.

USA and Canada have as country number eleven and twelve submitted the filled out questionnaires for the patient study EARLS 2010/2012, which now in total include answers from 3,943 patients over Europe and North America.