Potential vital role of pioglitazone discovered by Edinburgh research team. "Finding treatments for everyone with MS is now a very real prospect", MS Society UK.
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Heat sensitivity and MS: Research could be ‘first step’ to treatment
Encouraging research towards understanding and treating the effect of heat on MS symptoms.
Siponimod SPMS treatment on rocks but not sunk in health service quest
MS organisations battle for SPMS treatment to be available to those who need it. Draft guidelines challenged.
“Too complicated” claim denounced by disability campaigners
Ian Franks accuses government of being disingenuous - as well as uncaring, lacking compassion, discriminating against people with disabilities, and ... being pathetic.
‘Don’t leave disabled people behind’ – MS Society urges support for petition
MS Society, with other members of the Disability Benefits Consortium, is stepping up its fight for equality by asking us to sign an online petition to the UK government.
Government COVID-19 lockdown forces changes to MS Awareness Week
MS Awareness Week has arrived in the UK, to be met by the fifth week of the country’s COVID-19 lockdown. Faced with events being postponed, the MS Society wants us to flood social media with stories of MS - to raise awareness of all its symptoms
COVID-19: MS society calls for urgent changes to benefits
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Coronavirus and MS: Societies speak out
As MSers seek information and guidance in the face of coronavirus, Ian Franks has some answers from the USA's NMSS and the UK's MS Society.
Have fun, raise money and awareness of MS
MS Awareness Month begins on March 1, just three days away, so it is just the right time to look at how many of us are living with the disease, and to look ahead to taking part in, supporting, and having fun enjoying its activities,
Ocrevus now approved UK-wide as an NHS treatment for early primary progressive MS
It will probably be no surprise, to regular readers, that I pay special attention to both the development and availability of treatments for PPMS (Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis). Ocrevus is now approved to treat early PPMS on NHS in all UK.
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