About MS
Source Multiple Sclerosis News Today: I had always envisioned that I would be an active and healthy grandparent when the time came — not one with a disability. I was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) in the summer of 2010, which also happened to be the same year my first grandchild was born.
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Source Queen Mary University of London: A drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) has been granted a license by the European Commission, following evidence from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) that it improves patients’ quality of life and is safer than previously thought.
European Commission reverses decision on drug, following QMUL research Read More »
Source University of California San Francisco: Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified specific gut microbes associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) in human patients, and show that these microbes take part in regulating immune responses in mouse models of the disease.
Gut Microbes May Influence Multiple Sclerosis Progression Read More »
Source MS Society: If you can’t attend the Berkshire MS Therapy Centre for one of our exercise classes then the MS Society MS Active Together videos could be for you. MS Active together is about helping you be more physically active. Everyone’s MS is different, but exercise can help everyone – no matter how MS affects you.
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Source MS Society: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has licensed cladribine (also known as Mavenclad) to treat people with highly active relapsing MS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will now decide whether to make it available on the NHS in England and Wales. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) will decide for Scotland. How does it
Cladribine: NICE looking at new treatment for MS Read More »
Source MS Trust: The development of new drugs is a long and difficult process. Fewer than one or two compounds in 10,000 tested actually make it through to being licensed treatments with many being rejected on safety, efficacy or quality grounds.
Drugs in development Read More »
A third of MS sufferers who previously received the highest rate of Disability Living Allowance have had their payments downgraded since 2013
Source Disability Horizons: The Bimblers describe themselves as the UK’s most unlikely travel bloggers. Rob, together with his partner Bridget, travel in a wheelchair, reviewing access as they go. Driven by the mantra ‘access for all’ Rob has joined us to share his thoughts, observations and ideas to make travel easier for people of all
Accessible beaches and beach wheelchairs around the UK Read More »
Source Multiple Sclerosis News Today: A substance that the pancreas secretes can promote the regeneration of the protective nerve-cell coating that is damaged in multiple sclerosis, a mouse study shows.
Pancreas Secretes Factor That Can Rejuvenate Damaged Neuron Coating, Mouse Study Reports Read More »
Source Caroline Wyatt 25 AUGUST 2017 • 12:00PM The Telegraph: I lay face down on a pedestrian crossing, knees bleeding where they’d hit the road. I couldn’t get back on my feet, even as the lights changed. It was May 2016 and I’d been on my way to meet friends when I fell without warning. The
‘I approached my 50th birthday unable to balance or speak’ Read More »
