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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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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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MSRC are delighted to announce the addition of a brand...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, BBC Radio 5 Live rugby union commentator, retired following the Guinness Premiership final between Wasps and Leicester on Saturday.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 Chatroom Sessions for week commencing 12th May 2008.
We are holding 3 scheduled, moderated chatroom sessions...
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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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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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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 2008.
We are holding 3 scheduled, moderated chatroom sessions this week in the...
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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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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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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 2008.
We are holding 3 scheduled, moderated chatroom sessions this week in the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre Chat Room...
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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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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, a national nonprofit organization, today announced that they have completed their initial drive to collect one...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Teva Seeks Approval for the Extension of its Indication to Include the Treatment of Patients with a First Clinical Event Suggestive of MS.
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