Multiple sclerosis sufferer Stefan Cambridge is calling for a pioneering treatment to be available in the UK.
As a child, the now 34-year-old spent years caring for his father who...
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A mother from Seaford said her MS sufferer daughter has shown initial improvements after travelling to Poland for tests.
Michele Findlay made the trip with her 30-year-old daughter...
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Full guidance aimed at clarifying what factors might mitigate against someone being prosecuted for helping another person to die is due to be released.
A Law Lords ruling on an MS...
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Tris Peck and Kirsten Richards did the first TeamMSRC Skydive of 2010 in January. Watch their fantastic dives, raising money...
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Multiple sclerosis is a devastating disease which, until recently, had no possible cure.
Martin Jones suffered with MS for 13 years. But following a groundbreaking operation on...
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Researchers from the University of California’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) have found “reasonable evidence that cannabis is a promising treatment”
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A group of local multiple sclerosis sufferers are urging residents to lobby their MP to support a radical new treatment for the chronic illness.
The 20-strong group, which meets at...
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Investigators are proposing new diagnostic standards for multiple sclerosis in clinically isolated syndromes. Their criteria are less stringent than other proposals and are designed to improve...
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British doctors are set to offer patients a ground-breaking treatment for the devastating nerve disease multiple sclerosis.
An Italian doctor has successfully treated MS...
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The Risk-sharing Scheme, the mechanism that makes disease modifying drugs for MS available on the NHS, was debated in Parliament on 2 February.
James Gray MP, Chair of the All...
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A controversial theory touting multiple sclerosis as a vascular disease is a "step in the right direction" but not a panacea, says a McMaster University professor.
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Fewer African Americans than Caucasians develop multiple sclerosis (MS), statistics show, but their disease progresses more rapidly, and they don't respond as well to therapies, a new...
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Biologist Tom Lane and a team of UCI researchers are leading an effort to determine whether a stem-cell-based treatment can repair neurological damage caused by multiple sclerosis.
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CCSVI - MSRC New Pathways Magazine covers this new Multiple Sclerosis theory and possible treatment in latest issue.
MSRC are about to publish Issue 59 of...
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New research finds that in mice, transplanted neurons grown from embryonic stem cells can form proper connections with other brain parts.
Writing in The Journal of Neuroscience...
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Low vitamin D blood levels are associated with a significantly higher risk of relapse attacks in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who develop the disease during childhood, according to a...
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Doctors believe they have cured a British woman of multiple sclerosis after a pioneering operation. For years sufferers have been told there is no cure for MS, but the apparent success of...
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The MSRC MS Discussion Boards get support from fellow MSers, talk MS, laugh, cry, rant, whatever, we are there for you.
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Five years ago, opera singer Joan Beal had one of those life-changing shocks when her husband Jeff was told he had multiple sclerosis. She and Jeff, an Emmy-award-winning musical director, had...
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Insufficient safeguards exist to stop desperate patients being exploited by clinics offering unproven stem cell cures, scientists and patients' groups warn as a Harley Street doctor goes...
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A U.S. team has achieved encouraging results in the fight against multiple sclerosis (MS) using a new technique of autotransplantation of stem cells extracted from bone marrow of the patient...
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Babies born in April face an increased risk of suffering...
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When 14 year old Ryan Mclaughlin started his Shine on Scotland campaign he had set a goal to get vitamin D into our school milk, a simple idea to protect every child in scotland from Multiple...
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by Erika Milvy. Folks who suffer from Multiple Sclerosis are not really a rowdy bunch. Activism and outrage are hard to muster for the chronically fatigued. But since...
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A Canberra man diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) just over 12 months ago appears to be on the road to recovery after being treated with stem cells.
Ben Leahy was in a...
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When Sam Blyth lost his eyesight his mother felt her worst fears were confirmed. For weeks she had been going backwards and forwards to the GP saying he was ill.
Sam complained...
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The NHS is to be given far greater responsibility for social care under plans expected to be announced by the government in coming days, HSJ understands.
In what is claimed...
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Novartis AG is jockeying with German drug maker Merck KgaA to deliver the first disease modifying treatment for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis that can be taken orally, rather than by...
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Pregnant women in Scotland are to be educated about the importance of taking vitamin D supplements thanks to a campaign by a 14-year-old Glasgow schoolboy.
Ryan McLaughlin, whose...
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The research group of Professor Magdalena Gotz of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munich has made a significant advance in understanding regeneration processes in...
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Doses of cannabis might help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients subdue their body
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A study led by a Scripps Research Institute scientist describes a new, highly pragmatic approach to the identification of molecules that prevent a specific type of immune cells from attacking...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is primarily an autoimmune disorder of unknown origin.
This review focuses iron overload and oxidative stress as surrounding cause that leads to...
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US scientists are testing a radical new theory that multiple sclerosis (MS) is caused by blockages in the veins that drain the brain.
The University of Buffalo team were intrigued...
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Experts fear that a Victorian man with leukaemia may be the first Australian ''infected'' with cancer after treatment at a private overseas stem cell therapy centre...
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New research suggests that having multiple sclerosis puts pregnant women at slightly higher risk for giving birth via cesarean deliveries or having babies that grow at a slower rate in the...
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Magnetic resonance images (MRI) of patients
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Australian scientists have found that Vitamin D may slow the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Figures showing that people living in Tasmania are seven times more likely to...
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As England ended the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Paris in defeat, sports commentator Alastair Hignell breathed a sigh of relief - and not at the result.
He was bone-tired after a...
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MSRC has been invited to participate in the Charity of the Year Competition on which if we are successful could bring in a very welcome cash donation.
To ensure that we move on...
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Ryan McLaughlin, 14, whose mother suffers from the disease, said yesterday he was delighted that that Ministers were backing an opportunity to explore the growing evidence that lack of the...
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Higgy's Heroes Rocked at STROUD HALF MARATHON on Sunday 25 October. With the biggest team of Higgy’s Heroes yet, over 130 runners waited anxiously on the start line for the 2009...
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I guess that’s why they call it the Hughes. We now have a new article about Hughes Syndrome on the MSRC website.
How one man’s sleuthing has led to the most...
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With five novel oral therapies in late-stage development, there could soon be a wide range of treatment options for
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The row over the reclassification of cannabis...
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