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Proteins, Peptides Patch Poses Promise

By admin | Published: December 16, 2010
Injecting and oral administration of myelin peptides have not garnered the positive results that had been hoped for, however Polish researchers have higher hopes for the skin patch used in a small double blind study. The results have them eager to  expand and further investigate.
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Vaccine Being Investigated For Auto-Immune Conditions

By admin | Published: December 16, 2010
European researchers have been tinkering with a protein that is naturally produced in the human body. Utilizing this protein to create a vaccine they hope to spur T cell activity that ceases inflammation and also play a role fighting Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, RA, AA, MS, type II diabetes and cancers.
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The Teva Spin

By admin | Published: November 26, 2010
The makers of the injectable Copaxone would like you to stay with their tratment for multiple sclerosis rather than switch to Gilenya the newly approved pill. Here is a take from a Copaxone user who recieved PR material from Teva that attempts to persuade him to stick with his present therapy.
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Does This Environmental Toxin Cause MS?

By admin | Published: November 24, 2010
I always used to wonder why northern latitudes suffered the greatest incidence of multiple sclerosis cases. Then I saw some research that suggested cigarette smoking could play a role. This made me wonder about the geographical anomalies still and then a thought struck, could it be component of the smoke itself, one that could be present in [...]
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Tongue Stimulus

By admin | Published: November 24, 2010
Tongues are being stimulated and exercise is being practiced in this treatment regimen that is being developed to improve the gait, balance, posture, and limb control for persons with these neurological deficits due to illness, stroke or injury.
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Chronic Pain Med = MS Treatment?

By admin | Published: November 23, 2010
If  MS patients were rats they could have been cured long ago. A lot of  treatment strategies have been successful for lab rodents only to fizzle in human application. One of the newest of these discoveries focuses on the injection of  an anti-inflammatory medication that indicates a potential disease reversal in lab animals that have been paralyzed [...]
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PV-267

By admin | Published: November 21, 2010
PV-267, a molecule thought to block the autoimmune response responsible for myelin destruction in persons with multiple sclerosis, gets a big boost from Fast Forward.
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Expect More “Liberation Treatment” Horror Stories

By admin | Published: November 21, 2010
The state of multiple sclerosis treatment is a multi-billion dollar industry and there is currently a lot at stake fore drug companies,  government run, and insurance funded health care systems. Not to mention an unproven efficacy for the so-called Liberation Treatment that is being touted by destination health care providers in loosely regulated jurisdictions such as India and [...]
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Details Emerge In “CCVSI” Death

By admin | Published: November 20, 2010
New details have come to light in the case of a Canadian multiple sclerosis patient that died because of complications following a CCVSI procedure that supposedly did not adhere to the strict Liberation Procedure’s protocols.
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By admin | Published: November 19, 2010
Some comments and observations from the 2010 ECTRIMS meeting in Sweden.
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