Source BBC:
Work to build a £44m brain imaging centre to help experts better understand the causes of conditions like dementia and multiple sclerosis has begun in Cardiff.
Researchers at the Cardiff University site will use mapping techniques to get a more detailed look at how the brain works. Read on.

Source MS Society:
Published date: 30 Oct 2014 at 1:23PM
The disability benefit Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) has featured heavily in the news in the last 24 hours.
While the BBC has reported leaked documents about the future of payments, a major announcement on the new company replacing the assessment provider Atos has also been made. Read on.

Source MS Society:
We are delighted to announce funding for 15 exciting new research projects, costing a total of £1.45 million.

This brings our current number of active projects to 59, with research spanning cause, cure, symptom relief and MS services. Read on.

Source: MS Trust
A report published today by the MS Trust finds that 30,000 people with MS live in areas where their specialist nurses are managing twice the sustainable level. This may mean that these people are not receiving all the support that they need. Read on

Source Bizjournals:
Oregon Health & Science University isn’t rushing to use a new a Multiple Sclerosis therapy that uses a person’s own stem cells.
Dr. Richard Burt, chief of the division of immunotherapy at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, on Friday spoke to a group of physicians at OHSU’s Multiple Sclerosis Center about use of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Read on.

Source MS Trust:
As the administrator for the RSS the MS Trust has worked for the last 12 years with the five parties to the Scheme namely the Department of Health, Biogen Idec, Bayer, Merck Serono and Teva to collect ongoing clinical data from 5,610 people with MS across the UK. Read on.