MS patients reported improved walking after taking extended release drug Ampyra (Nasdaq: ACOR). “People with MS often experience a progressive decline in their walking ability that can begin early in their disease course. However, in many cases patients and their healthcare providers do not discuss walking impairment until it is so severe that it...
Israeli pharmaceutical Glycominds Ltd. (TASE: GLCM) reported that they discovered a method for predicting clinical episodes in MS patients. The test results have shown with statistical significance that the gMS®Pro CDMS blood test has a good chance of identifying which patients are likely to have a relapse within a 24-60 month period. The clinical...
Join the movement to end multiple sclerosis! On Sunday, June 5, thousands of Calgarians will participate in the 20th anniversary of the Enerflex MS Walk. The MS Walk it meant to help bring awareness to the fact that 55,000 to 75,000 Canadians live with multiple sclerosis and that every day, three more Canadians are...
Patient enrollment in an international Phase III trial for Teva’s popular MS drug, Copaxone. The are over 1,400 patients enrolled at 180 sites in the US, Europe, Central Eastern Europe and Israel. The phase is meant to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of 40mg COPAXONE (glatiramer acetate injection) administered three times a week compared to...
The results of a study conducted by the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) is sure to generate a fair amount of controversy. The study concludes that there is no significant increase risk for MS for patients under severe stress. Past studies have often linked a stressful life events and subsequent development of the disease....
The debate of the causes of multiple sclerosis have traditionally fallen into two camps: environmentally caused or genetically preconditioned. Researchers at the University of California are basically saying that MS is caused by an interaction of human genese with Vitamin D. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/05/multiple-sclerosis-mechanism-uncovered/1
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