January 27, 2023 Columns by Ed Tobias Does Marijuana Help Your MS Symptoms, or Is It an Illusion? A recent question on the MS News Today Facebook page generated some buzz about getting a buzz on to treat your multiple sclerosis (MS). The question was, “What helps you the most to manage your daily life with MS?” Many people with MS said the thing that helped…
May 11, 2022 by BioNews Staff Expert Voices: Cannabis use in people with multiple sclerosis In this installment of our āExpert Voicesā series, Multiple Sclerosis News Today asked Thorsten Rudroff, PhD, to answer some of your questions about cannabis use with multiple sclerosis. Rudroff is the director of the Integrative Neurophysiology Laboratory and an associate professor in the Department of Health and Human…
May 4, 2022 News by Marisa Wexler, MS Cannabis ‘Highly Effective’ Against MS Symptoms, Some Users Report More than half of Canadians with multiple sclerosis (MS) report using cannabis to help manage their symptoms, according to a new study. The study,Ā “Medical cannabis use in Canadians with multiple sclerosis,” was published in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. Humans have used the cannabis plant for millennia,…
January 21, 2022 Columns by John Connor The World According to MS Ennui Move along, move along. Nothing to read here. What a great start to a column! Last week, my worries about MS lifted as I was consumed by a glitch in my computer software. Iām pleased to report that Iāve found a whole series of admittedly fiddly workarounds. Iām even…
August 9, 2019 Columns by Ed Tobias Using Marijuana and Having Surgery? Tell Your Anesthesiologist If you’re using marijuana and have surgery scheduled, take heed. In Colorado, where medical marijuana was legalized in 2000 and recreational use in 2012, medical personnel are discovering that weed may complicate the surgical process. The concern, according to an article in Kaiser Health News, is that marijuana…
August 30, 2018 Columns by Laura Kolaczkowski The Dilemmas Facing Medical Cannabis Prescribers Medical cannabis has created a dilemma for medical providers who care for people who might benefit from its use. Iāve been thinking more about this lately because my home state of Ohio will have legal medical marijuana dispensaries starting on Sept. 8. The law passed in 2016, and it…
April 27, 2018 Columns by John Connor Tricks of the Trade I saw my neurologist a few weeks ago for what was effectively an emergency meeting. I’d had the customary two rounds of Lemtrada (alemtuzumab) and still had a relapse. We discussed weighty subjects and there seemed,Ā surprisingly, to still be some hope. It depends on the outcome of an MRI;…
January 17, 2017 News by Patricia Silva, PhD Cannabis Compounds Ease Spasticity in MS, National Academies’ Report States CertainĀ cannabinoids reduce spasticity symptoms inĀ multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, according toĀ aĀ reportĀ from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineĀ thatĀ scrutinized published research about the benefits and hazards of cannabis and cannabinoid use. Cannabinoids also show proven effectĀ in other areas that may be importantĀ to MS patients, but they are linked…
June 2, 2016 News by Patricia Silva, PhD #CMSC16 – Lifestyle Factors and Unconventional Medicine in MS Care A symposium focused on lifestyle factors and unconventional medicine as part of the clinical care provided to patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) took placeĀ today at theĀ 2016 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC). The symposium, “Expanding the MS Toolkit: Integrating Lifestyle Factors and Unconventional Medicine…
October 19, 2015 News by admin Marijuana Now Legal in Croatia for Medical Purposes, Including Multiple Sclerosis As of October 15, 2015, Croatia has been added to the list of European Union (EU) countries that now allow marijuana for medical purposes. Other countries within the EU that permit some degree of marijuana use include Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands. The legalization of the sale…
September 16, 2015 News by Patricia Silva, PhD Aphios Awarded Grant for Cannabinoid Production To Develop Therapeutic Agent for MS Aphios Corporation, a green biotechnology company based inĀ Massachusetts that uses environmentally sustainable technologies, recently announced it was awarded the Phase II portion of a Fast Track SBIR grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the production of cannabidiol (CBD) from marijuana.
June 12, 2015 News by Charles Moore Most MS Survey Respondents Favor Legal Marijuana Access For Medical Use With 26 statesĀ plus the District of Columbia now allowing medical marijuana use, according to a recent North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) survey, many people with multiple sclerosis are considering the herb as a therapeutic option. NARCOMS is a research program that allows people with Multiple Sclerosis…
May 1, 2014 News by Charles Moore Debate Over Medical Marijuana For MS And Other Diseases Heats Up Steve Pepple / Shutterstock.com The 2012 state ballot approvals of marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington has been a catalyst for stirring the pot, so to speak, on a wide range of issues and nuances related to the herb — not least marijuana’s clinical use…
April 29, 2014 by admin New Report Cautions Marijuana As Treatment For MS Marijuana has been approved for medicinal purposes in a number of U.S. states, however it still remains a much debated issue according to the American Academy of Neurology.Ā New information has been released by ANN Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.Ā This represents the largest gathering of neurologists globally. According…