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It appears that capturing snapshots of Steve Jobs' Mercedes SL55 AMG parked in a handicapped spot at One Infinite Loop is quickly becoming one of the ultimate "must have" photos on a tour of "The Mothership".
I guess when you're that rich, the handicapped don't matter...
A man whose wife has suffered for 15 years with a debilitating disease is walking across England to raise £60,000. Andy Monk hopes that his 5,262 mile effort to 722 newspaper offices and radio stations will help scientists to rapidly research a cure for MS – which he has seen take hold of his wife.
Jim Dunlap, a Fort Collins man living with multiple sclerosis, rode in the four-day MS Global ride in Vail last weekend. Money raised at the event will help establish an MS Repository Collection site at the Rocky Mountain MS Center in Denver.
Our new poll wants to know: What was your exposure to animals growing up?
Our last poll on hair color turned up in interesting discrepancy - we seem to have 2-3 times as many people with red hair reading MSNews than the general population.
Each year, Hollie and Art try to attend several big MS and Neurological conferences. One of the big MS conferences is ECTRIMS (European Committee for Treatment and Research In MS), and this year it was held in Montreal. We attended as many sessions as we could, took notes, and wrote them up for you to enjoy.
If you are interested in the latest research in MS, you'll want to slog through this long posting.
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Elaine Moore, who invited me to co-author a meidcal reference book on all uses of LDN, has posted a report on abstracts by Dr Zagon of Penn State, and Dr Cree of UCSF. The latter was the patient funded study, supported by Accelerated Cure Project. Just presented at the 2008 World Congress on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, the first joint meeting of ACTRIMS, ECTRIMS and LACTRIMS, in Montreal. This is very handy, as these abstracts are not public access.
The use of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) has increased recently with devices utilized to assist people experiencing foot drop. There has been an increase in the public’s awareness of these devices and their use in people living with multiple sclerosis. This article is a good overview.
This site has a plethora of reviews of wheelchairs, cushions, and other assistive technologies. There are other interesting compendiums of info on things like lemon-laws for wheelchairs, going from cane to wheelchair, vans, and travel info.
Hanwell's team studied 125 kids who had evidence of MS symptoms such as numbness. Twenty of the children were diagnosed with MS within the next year, Hanwell said. Blood tests showed 68 per cent of those children had vitamin D insufficiency.
On average, the children with MS had much lower levels of the vitamin than children who did not experience any other MS-like symptoms.
The trial, called Oracle MS, will evaluate the safety and efficacy of two dosage regimens of cladribine tablets versus placebo in the treatment of patients who have experienced a first clinical event suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS). Cladribine tablets are currently also being evaluated in a fully enrolled Phase III pivotal trial - the Clarity study - for treatment of relapsing forms of MS.
Info on current MS/Cladribine trials is here.