May 5, 2023 Columns by John Connor Reflections from the front line: My recovery from muscle deconditioning Iām worried that my tales of recovery may have gotten a tad boring, so let me liven things up with the weirdest thing I now have to live with. The head of my “thing” has been sliced half an inch vertically. By “thing,” I of course mean my penis! And…
June 18, 2021 News by Somi Igbene, PhD Younger Age, DMT Use at Early Relapse May Lessen Later Disability People with Ā multiple sclerosis (MS) who are usingĀ a disease-modifying therapyĀ ā and are at a younger age ā when they have a relapse within the first three years of their disease course are more likely to recover completely, lowering their risk of long-term, 10-year disability, a study suggests. Complete recovery…
December 10, 2020 News by Patricia Inacio, PhD Children With MS Recover Better From Relapses Than Adults, Study Suggests Despite having more severe first and second relapses, children with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) tend to recover better than adults with the disease, according to a study. Better recovery in children may be linked to the activation of genes that, in turn, impair the activation of immune cells driving…
October 1, 2020 News by Joana Carvalho, PhD #MSVirtual2020 – Disability Level and DMT Use Don’t Raise COVID-19 Risk, UK Study Finds When safety measures like isolation are in place, neither disease-modifying therapy (DMT) use nor greater physical disability appear to heighten the risk of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) contracting COVID-19, a large U.K. registry-based study found. Preliminary study data also suggested that these factors do not affect…
August 25, 2020 News by Patricia Inacio, PhD Children with MS May Have More Relapses, But They Recover More Fully Children withĀ multiple sclerosis (MS) recover more quickly and “significantly better” from relapses than do adults ā patients with disease onset at age 18 or older, researchers reported. The study, āImproved relapse recovery in paediatric compared to adult multiple sclerosis,ā was published in the journal Brain. Relapses and…
August 7, 2018 Columns by Teresa Wright-Johnson Revelations Learned in My Aha! Moments Have you ever asked yourself, āWhat am I supposed to do with my life?” or, “How did I get here?” I have asked these questions several times throughout my existence. Those questions regurgitated at the occurrence of every life-altering event. I did not receive a definitive answer that appeased…
April 13, 2018 Columns by John Connor Back to the World The stars sometimes align, even for us atheists. My son was making a fleeting weekend visit from his last year at his university. It’s all we were going to see of him over the Easter period. He’s taking it very seriously and aiming forĀ top gradesĀ in math. The week…
February 23, 2018 Columns by John Connor What’s Going On? Something is! I had to be carted off to the hospital in an ambulance on Thursday of last week. It was either an infection my home-visiting doctor couldn’t spotĀ or the dreaded relapse. She couldn’t diagnose any illness. At the hospital, they used the words “atypical infection.” One of…
June 2, 2017 Columns by John Connor Lemtrada II: My Right Foot (Hopefully) Read John Connor’s previous column, “Lemtrada I: This Island Couch.” Apologies for the pic of my edemaāriddled right foot. If I put whiskers on it, my big toe could do a damn fine impersonation of a seal. On the bright side, a month ago it was twice this…