August 27, 2021 Columns by Ed Tobias I’m Trying a Different Medication, Myrbetriq, for My Urinary Issues I’ve had pee problems for as long as I’ve had multiple sclerosis. Many folks with MS have issues, including urinary urgency, frequency, or both, bladders that don’t empty completely, or streams that don’t start when you need to go. There are medications to treat these problems. The best known…
May 28, 2021 Columns by Ed Tobias How Do You Define an MS Cure? “Why aren’t researchers doing more to find a cure for multiple sclerosis?” “Why isn’t more effort and money devoted to this?” I regularly read comments like these after I write a column about a new disease-modifying therapy (DMT) that’s either being tested or has just been approved. Some, like Multiple…
February 5, 2021 Columns by Ed Tobias Upper Body Health Also Is Important for People With MS My left hand was numb and weak when I was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For years after that, symptoms above my waist seemed just as prevalent as those below it. Yet, there were no tests being used that measured my waist-up disability level ā nothing equivalent to the…
June 12, 2020 Columns by Ed Tobias I’m Tired Again, and I’m Sure You’ve Been There Are you tired? Really tired? Me, too. Most of us with multiple sclerosis are. How many is most? A small new study of 44 people with one of the progressive forms of MS found that the answer is a little over 86%. (I’m surprised the number isn’t higher.) They…
March 29, 2019 Columns by Ed Tobias Some Thoughts About Controlling Your MS Bladder There are two types of people with MS: Those who have bladder problems and those who will have them. That may be an oversimplification but Iād be willing to bet that you, like me, have had that gotta-gotta-go problem too many times to count. Sometimes you make it…
October 26, 2017 News by Patricia Silva, PhD #MSParis2017 ā Mavenclad Is ‘Smart’ Therapy for Active Relapsing MS, Researcher Says MavencladĀ (cladribine tablets), an oral therapy byĀ MerckĀ that’s approved to treat people with active relapsing multiple sclerosis in much of Europe, is a “smart therapy” that is showing real and long-term benefit after a short treatment course, said Gavin Giovannoni, chair of neurology atĀ Barts and The London School of Medicine…