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Multiple sclerosis and cannabis - a cognitive and psychiatric study

Background: A significant minority of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) use cannabis, yet no study has examined the possible effects on mentation. Here, we...
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Vitamin D, hope for a new disease fighter for Multiple Sclerosis

In a Newark laboratory, researchers watch as mice stricken with multiple sclerosis suddenly walk. They peer into microscopes and see the growth of breast cancer...
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Are you up to the Grim Challenge?

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MSRC are delighted to announce the addition of a brand...
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NHS 'failing' multiple sclerosis patients

Just over a third of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have access to the recommended rehabilitation services, according to a study published today.

The research revealed other...
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Update on Copaxone FORTE Trial in Multiple Sclerosis

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced top-line results from a Phase III study designed to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of glatiramer acetate (GA) 40mg as compared to the...
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Possibility of distinct types of disease in Multiple sclerosis patients with same symptoms

Results raise prospects for tailoring treatments for patients with MS.

Animal studies by University of Michigan scientists suggest that people who...
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Multiple Sclerosis patients to get personal NHS budgets

Patients with conditions like multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease will have their own NHS budgets to buy the care they think is best for them.

The personalised NHS budgets will be...
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ATL/TV1102 reduces disease activity in multiple sclerosis patients

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Antisense Therapeutics Ltd. announced that anti-sense drug, ATL/TV1102, significantly reduced disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple...
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Ancient Retrovirus May Contribute to Multiple Sclerosis

Smoldering Infections of Two Common Viruses EBV and HHV-6 Cause Inherited Retrovirus Genes to Activate.

Brigitte Huber, PhD, of the Tufts University School of Medicine...
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One In Three UK GPs Not Confident In Spotting Multiple Sclerosis


Research published by the MS Society has revealed that one in three GPs is unsure how to spot the signs of multiple sclerosis (MS).

The report undertaken by Brand Health...
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Revimmune® Shows Unprecedented Results in Multiple Sclerosis

Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that researchers from Johns Hopkins University have published encouraging results from a two-year study evaluating the...
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Scientists create molecule that causes nerve stem cells to mature

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center claim to have made a small molecule that stimulates nerve stem cells to begin maturing into nerve cells in culture. The...
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Multiple Sclerosis sufferer wins suicide challenge

Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy has won permission to bring a High Court challenge to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

The 45-year-old...
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Exciting Launch of Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre Film

Thursday 12th June at 13.55pm on The Community Channel will see the first public showing of the new MSRC film. The film is a result of a collaboration between MSRC, The Media Trust and an...
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Cyclophosphamide promising against multiple sclerosis

Treatment with an immune-suppressing drug may help people with the incurable disease multiple sclerosis, researchers say. Their small study showed that treatment with high doses of cyclophosphamide...
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Multiple Sclerosis: early treatment can delay progression of the disease

ENS Meeting 2008 - Some patients do not have access to effective modern treatments.

The latest findings in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases are under discussion...
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Neurologically Impaired Mice Improve After Receiving Human Stem Cells

Scientists report a dramatic success in what may be the first documented rescue of a congenital brain disorder by transplantation of human neural stem cells. The research, published by Cell Press...
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T regulatory cells that inhibit multiple sclerosis that are not T reg

Multiple sclerosis is mediated by autoimmune T cell responses against components of the myelin basic sheath, for example myelin basic protein, myelin oligodendrocyte...
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Christine's Tysabri Diary Update - Infusion No. 9

Christine has kindly sent in her latest Tysabri Diary, you can read it at MSRC...
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CASP launches

Welcome!  The Coalition of Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients (CASP) is an organisation founded by people with AS to co-ordinate campaigning activities on behalf of AS patients...
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Leeds grandad breaks drug law to tackle multiple sclerosis

This man is so ill he spends days in agony and can barely walk. But under a recent Government decision he could be jailed for FIVE YEARS for using the only drug that...
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Alastair Hignell, patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre, retires from rugby commentary

Alastair Hignell, BBC Radio 5 Live rugby union commentator, retired following the Guinness Premiership final between Wasps and Leicester on Saturday.

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Specialist multiple sclerosis team set up in Dundee

A specialist team has been created to help people in Dundee with multiple sclerosis (MS). The group, which is described as the first of its kind in Scotland, features a social worker...
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Significant Barriers Prevent People with MS from Fully Committing to Treatment Regimen

Nearly all people (97 percent) with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have started treatment say their commitment to managing their disease in every way possible is their prime motivation for...
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Lupus drug to be tested as Multiple Sclerosis treatment

Human Genome Sciences said its lupus treatment, LymphoStat-B, could be effective in treating multiple sclerosis because it inhibits a protein found in high levels in the disease's lesions. As...
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Israeli team developing Multiple Sclerosis drug revolution

Could multiple sclerosis patients be spared the needle? A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem thinks it's possible. The team, headed by Prof. Elka Touitou, has developed a way to...
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Novartis Wins European Approval for Multiple Sclerosis Drug

Novartis has announced that the European Commission has approved Extavia for the treatment of early and relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. The drug is said to be...
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Study of islanders’ DNA to seek clues for a cure to Multiple Sclerosis

A groundbreaking study of Scots' DNA is being launched to discover why the nation has the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the world.

It is...
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New research shows exercise lifts Muliple Sclerosis symptoms

Contradicting old research that says exercise is harmful for people with multiple sclerosis, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is now promoting exercise as a way of alleviating symptoms of...
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MSRC On The Web

MSRC On the Web

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MSRC Chatroom Sessions for Week commencing 12th May

MSRC Chatroom Sessions for week commencing 12th May 2008.

We are holding 3 scheduled, moderated chatroom sessions...
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Multiple Sclerosis Patients - Effects of UK Cannabis Reclassification Decision

Contrary to the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, the Home Secretary, Jackie Smith, has announced that from 2009 cannabis will be reclassified from a Class C drug to a...
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Multiple Sclerosis affects men and women differently

A new study done in Buffalo is revealing the differences in the way Multiple Sclerosis affects men and women. The Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center is part of the...
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Bone marrow treatments restore nerves in multiple sclerosis patients

An experiment that went wrong may provide a new way to treat multiple sclerosis, a Canadian researcher said on Tuesday.

Patients who got bone marrow stem-cell transplants -- similar...
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MSRC Chatroom Sessions for Week commencing 5th May

MSRC Chatroom Sessions for week commencing 5th May 2008.

We are holding 3 scheduled, moderated chatroom sessions this week in the...
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Possible new oral drug delivery system for Multiple Sclerosis Drugs

Diabetics and multiple sclerosis patients could take their medicine via a capsule or a tablet instead of enduring multiple injections, because of a new development...
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Multiple Sclerosis Disease Activity May Be Curbed By Prozac

The antidepressant Prozac may help to curb disease activity in the relapsing remitting form of multiple sclerosis (MS), reveals preliminary research published ahead...
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Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis

Evidence supports a genetic predisposition to MS. There is excess occurrence in Northern Europeans relative to indigenous populations from the same geographic...
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MSRC Chatroom Sessions for Week commencing 28th April

MSRC Chatroom Sessions for week commencing 28th April 2008.

We are holding 3 scheduled, moderated chatroom sessions this week in the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre Chat Room...
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Neuroscience researcher working toward a cure for Multiple Sclerosis

If finding a way to restore nerve cells' protective coating were the only challenge, multiple sclerosis would be a more manageable disease.

But researchers at the UConn Health...
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DNA Vaccines may offer hope in Multiple Sclerosis

Authors from the VA North Texas Health Care System Neurology Section and the Department of Neurology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas...
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Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis is One Thousand Steps Closer to a Cure for MS

Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, a national nonprofit organization, today announced that they have completed their initial drive to collect one...
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Team MSRC's Flora London Marathon 2008 Photos Now Online

The TeamMSRC's Flora London Marathon 2008 photos are now online. There are three sets of photos to view, browse etc. 

a)Photos taken at the MSRC...
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Hopes For Future Stem Cell 'Cure' For Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Stem-cell treatment could be used to help reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis within 15 years, a leading expert on the disease has said. Professor Charles...
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New study may open new doors to Multiple Sclerosis cell-mediated gene therapy

Chronic inflammation triggers bone marrow-derived blood cells to travel to the brain and fuse with a certain type of neuron up to 100 times more frequently than previously believed, according to a...
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Positive Phase I results for possible Multiple Sclerosis study reported

Hadasit, the technology transfer company of Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical...
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Possible Antibody to fight Multiple Sclerosis discovered

An antibody to fight multiple sclerosis may be the first potential treatment coming from a five-year-old state partnership between Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota...
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The launch of I Exist

Congratulations to I Exist for the launch of their campaign highlighting the difficulties of adults with autism.

It was a lively gathering with speakers who know what...
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Botulinum Toxin Type A Helps Multiple Sclerosis Patients With Spastic Foot Drop

Botulinum toxin type A injections can decrease spasticity and improve quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with spastic foot drop, Anjali Shah, MD, Assistant Professor, Divisions of...
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Early Treatment with COPAXONE® Significantly Delayed Progression

Teva Seeks Approval for the Extension of its Indication to Include the Treatment of Patients with a First Clinical Event Suggestive of MS.

Teva Pharmaceutical...
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