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Medications Rituximab (Rituxan)
* immunosuppressive iv medication
* usually used as rescue therapy in very severe MS
* rarely used as therapy at first due to increased risk
* risk of serious infections
Fiction by Gary Piper
“Greg, can you tell me why God listens to non-Christians more than he does us who are trying to live right?” Trish, asked her husband as they sat eating breakfast.
Greg was almost sure he knew where Trish’s question was coming...
Fiction by Gary Piper
Note to the reader: I know you are not facing an army of superior numbers as the men in the following story are but sometimes circumstances in life will make us able to identify with them. You need not fear...
by Gary Piper
Do I follow the Journey of Jesus or not, is the single most important question you will be confronted with in your life. You will be confronted with it more times in a day that you can imagine. If you do follow the Journey...
Reports are coming out of Iran that a so-called "cure" has been found for Multiple Sclerosis.
Iran Multiple Sclerosis Society Deputy Chairman, Mohammad Ali Saraian said, that Iran will be releasing a new oral Multiple sclerosis treatment on the local markets in October of 2013...........
Blocking the expression of just one protein in the brain delays the onset of paralysis in mice with a form of multiple sclerosis, say researchers at the School of Medicine.
Exactly why this happens is still unclear. It may be, in part, that blocking expression of the protein, SIRT1, enhances the...
Hand dysfunction is common in multiple sclerosis (MS). Recent interest has focused on incorporating patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments into clinical trials. Nevertheless, examinations are rare in MS of existing manual ability measures.
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the 23-item ABILHAND, developed for use after stroke, in people with...
At no other time in the history of multiple sclerosis (MS) has the accurate measurement of health outcomes been so important. There are now many kinds of interventions of proven or potential efficacy available for people with MS and many other methods are under investigation. Not all outcomes that matter...
Baseline Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) is usually based on a single measurement. Here we evaluated whether using a baseline EDSS derived from two pre-treatment measurements improves the detection of progression events and the ability to demonstrate a therapeutic effect in delaying MS disability progression.
Real data from OLYMPUS, a phase...
MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The Neurology Daily, the new neurology portal driven by MedWorm,...
It's time for another informal survey. I was interested to run across a forum where people were discussing diarrhea as a side effect of Copaxone.
I have been on Copaxone for over seven years and can say that diarrhea was never one of my side effects. In one report of adverse...
We already knew this was true. However, a questionnaire-based study among 3,800 people with MS in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland has further confirmed these results and given us a little more insight.
...Back when there was Copaxone, Rebif, Avonex and Betaseron, things were pretty easy to pronounce (although my nurse kept referring to my "Copazone" injection when she was teaching me how to give myself a shot).
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