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News Briefs | 6 Feb 2015

MS Research Roundup: February 6, 2015

Patient Portal Aims to Fuel Research; MS With Other Chronic Diseases; Push for MS Cure in the News; Relapses as Adverse Events; The Language of Science

Cynthia McKelvey and Carol Cruzan Morton

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, People

News Briefs | 2 Feb 2015

MS Research Roundup: February 2, 2015

New Regulatory Gene for Myelin-Making Cells; Biogen + Google Team Up Against MS; Brainsmart Way to Quit Smoking

Cynthia McKelvey and Carol Cruzan Morton

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis (MS) researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, Drug Development, Laboratory Research

News Briefs | 22 Jan 2015

MS Research Roundup: January 22, 2015

More Stem Cell Transplant Results; Less MS in Women With Ulcer-Causing Bacteria; Supreme Court Extends Wait for Generic Glatiramir Acetate; Research Drives Biotech Boom

Cynthia McKelvey and Carol Cruzan Morton

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, Drug Development

News Briefs | 20 Jan 2015

Glatiramer Acetate and the Interferon Betas Are Clinically Similar

Following on the heels of a Cochrane meta-analysis earlier in 2014, a new study finds that MS patients followed over 10 years have similar annualized relapse rates whether they take glatiramer acetate or one of the interferon betas

Cynthia McKelvey

No matter how you slice it, glatiramer acetate and the interferon betas appear to be...

Clinical Research

News Briefs | 18 Jan 2015

MS Research Roundup: January 18, 2015

Experimental Remyelination Antibody Results; This Is Your Brain on Diapers; Neuroscience With a Conscience

Cynthia McKelvey and Carol Cruzan Morton

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, Drug Development, Laboratory Research

News Briefs | 16 Jan 2015

Corpus Callosum Cross-Section Correlated With Cognitive Decline

A new longitudinal study of people with MS found that the cross-sectional area of the midsagittal corpus callosum was highly associated with cognitive decline and moderately associated with physical disability over a 17-year period

Cynthia McKelvey

A 17-year longitudinal study published online ahead of print in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal found that...

Clinical Research, Methods

News Briefs | 12 Jan 2015

MS Research Roundup: January 12, 2015

Pain Comes Before Myelin Loss; HPV Vaccine Not Linked to MS; Retroviruses Common in Genomes & Activate B Cells; Posthumous Plea for Right-to-Die Reform; Oscar Wilde’s Wife May Have Had MS

Carol Cruzan Morton and Cynthia McKelvey

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, People

News Briefs | 21 Dec 2014

MS Research Roundup: December 21, 2014

Neurology Group Calls for Cannabis Regulation Changes; Videos and Podcasts of MS Research and Care; Alan Alda & the MSDF Manifesto

Cynthia McKelvey and Carol Cruzan Morton

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, Drug Development

News Briefs | 12 Dec 2014

Axon Transport Deficits: Neurodegeneration’s First Sign?

When axonal transport is disrupted, neurodegeneration follows, according to a study in EAE mice

Cynthia McKelvey

Neurons in the brain need a lot of support in order to survive. Since axons can...

Laboratory Research

News Briefs | 12 Dec 2014

MS Research Roundup: December 12, 2014

The MS Blockbuster That Got Away; Playing Hardball With High-Priced Drugs; The Story of Gluten Intolerance

Cynthia McKelvey and Carol Cruzan Morton

Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...

Clinical Research, Drug Development