February 11, 2016 News by Charles Moore Assess MS: a New Therapy Assessment Tool Developed by Microsoft – Novartis Collaboration When Microsoft rolled out its original Kinect system for playing Xbox video games in November 2010, the technology caught the eye of giant multinational healthcare company Novartis. A longstanding research challenge for Novartis has been to devise and design more consistent methods of quantifying whether multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments…
January 25, 2016 News by admin Some Forms of MS Might Be Treatable with Hematopoietic Stem Cells Clinical trials suggestĀ that hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), a common treatment for bone marrow and blood cancers, could also help people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The technique involves harvesting new, undeveloped blood or bone marrow (hematopoietic) cells, typically from the person affected with the disease (autologous). The goal is to…
January 5, 2016 News by Patricia Silva, PhD Review Highlights Long List of Unmet Needs For MS Patients In a special feature publishedĀ in the journal American Health & Drug Benefits, authorsĀ Stanton R. Mehr, President of SM Health Communications, and Marj P. Zimmerman, President of RxDirections, discuss the many unmet medical needs multiple sclerosis (MS) patients still face in dealing with the…
December 29, 2015 News by Patricia Silva, PhD MS Fatigue, Cognitive Impairments Are Main Reasons Patients Lose Their Jobs Difficulties with cognitive function and fatigue are the main reasonsĀ patients withĀ multiple sclerosis (MS)Ā struggle to stay gainfully employed, a new study published in theĀ December edition of theĀ International Journal of MS CareĀ has found. The study is titled āFactors Associated with Employment Status in Individuals with…
December 10, 2015 News by Patricia Inacio, PhD Potential MS Biomarker Seen in Adipose Tissue Secretion In a new study titled āAdipsin Is Associated with Multiple Sclerosis: A Follow-Up Study of Adipokines,ā researchers report a correlation between an adipokine called adipsin and the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). The study was published in the Multiple Sclerosis International journal. Obese adolescents…