Source Multiple Sclerosis News Today: Stem cells tweaked in the laboratory have allowed researchers, reportedly for a first time, to generate and maintain ball-shaped cultures — called spheroids — of human brain cells in 3D that contain oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin, along with neurons and the astrocytes that are essential to nerve cell health. These long-surviving… Read more »
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Letter calls for ocrelizumab to be made available for people with PPMS
Source MS Trust: A letter signed by the MS Society, MS Trust, Shift MS and leading neurologists calls on NICE, NHS England and drug manufacturer Roche to make ocrelizumab available for people with primary progressive MS. Back in September, NICE announced that it would not be recommending ocrelizumab as an NHS treatment for early primary progressive MS…. Read more »
Cochrane Review of effectiveness of exercise to prevent falls
Source Independent Living: Exercise is frequently cited as a good way of helping to prevent falls, and now we have strong evidence that a programme of exercise can indeed prevent falls amongst older people living in the community. Falls are a leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths worldwide. Older adults suffer the greatest number… Read more »
Research Survey:
RA student PhD researcher at Loughborough University is conducting research about heat and cold in Multiple Sclerosis.Please share this link with your members so that they can complete if interested.https://lboro.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/temperature-sensitivity-in-multiple-sclerosis-online-survey1
Ed’s funeral arrangements
If anyone would like to go to Ed’s funeral, it will be held on Monday 4th February, 1pm at Oxford Crem and after at the Windrush Pub, Burford Road, Witney.
McTimoney Chiropractic Care starting Thursday 28th February –
Whilst chiropractic cannot halt or reverse MS, it can offer symptomatic relief of pain which comes from wheelchair use, trauma from falls and altered posture. Treatments can take place either on the bench or wheelchair users restricted in mobility can be adjusted in their chair if preferred. Chiropractic focuses on musculoskeletal care and spinal health and… Read more »
Rituximab beneficial in secondary progressive MS
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UK Experts Propose New Guidelines to Treat Women with MS Before, During, After Pregnancy
Source Multiple Sclerosis News Today: Multiple sclerosis (MS) experts in the United Kingdom have proposed consensus guidelines for the management and treatment of pregnant women with the disease, and couples affected by MS who are planning a pregnancy. The new guidelines are expected to reduce uncertainty about treatments that are considered to be safe and… Read more »
Disease modifying drugs may reduce risk of secondary progressive MS
