Stem cell treatment helps people with MS, Phase 1 clinical trial

Stem cell treatment improved neurological symptoms of 75% of people with multiple sclerosis in a Phase 1 clinical trial, say researchers in the USA. Results were so encouraging that they prompted the team, at Tisch MS Research Center of New York, to start a Phase 2 trial. This is to allow them to assess further the safety …

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Cambridge scientist ‘on verge of curing multiple sclerosis’

A researcher from Cambridge University, UK, has made a discovery which could lead to a cure for multiple sclerosis. What's more, she says it can tackle other diseases too. Dr Su Metcalfe was working at the university's department of surgery when she made her big breakthrough. "I was looking to see what controls the immune …

Stem cell trial patients are leading a normal life

This is my column, today, in MS News Today. I thought you'd like to know about it: Stem Cell MS Patients Lead Normal Life Thanks To aHSCT Procedure People with MS who were involved in a long-term clinical trial are out and about enjoying a full and normal life with no signs of the disease. This …

‎Self-advocate: Take control of your own treatment

Becoming a self-advocate may be the best way of getting the treatment any MS patient may want. Stem cell transplants are known as aHSCT or just HSCT, and interest in them as a therapy for MS has never been higher. First there were stories from the annual meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers …

New clinic in Mexico to open to treat chronic diseases – but including a very different stem cell treatment

There is a second clinic being set up in Mexico that claims it is going to be offering various treatments, including stem cell therapy, at a fraction of the price of Clinic Ruiz. It is important to realise, though, that the new clinic’s stem cell treatment is not HSCT. Treatment at the new clinic will …

Gwen Higgs, HSCT for MS advocate, ‘This is Your Life’ (part two)

Gwen Higgs underwent HSCT in Moscow in 2014. Today, she is a committed advocate for the use of stem cell therapy to treat all types of multiple sclerosis. She is a voluntary admin on many HSCT Facebook groups and is always ready with words of encouragement and reassurance. This is part two of Gwen’s story, …

Gwen Higgs, HSCT for MS advocate, ‘This is Your Life’ (part one)

There can be no doubt that Gwen Higgs is a remarkable woman who has fought MS, has undergone HSCT and is today a voluntary advocate for that treatment, including being an admin of several Facebook pages on the subject. She is always there with answers to questions and kind words of reassurance when needed. Today is …

HSCT, sunshine, MS and other musings

 Gwen Higgs, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron Gwen’s story, warts and all HSCT, stem cell therapy, and its use to treat multiple sclerosis patients has been on television, in publications and even this blog during the second half of January. In just a couple of days, or so, I shall be bringing you …

Can Multiple Sclerosis be stopped? Maybe SOME can

Last night on the UK’s BBC television, its leading documentary programme Panorama aired an episode entitled Can you stop my Multiple Sclerosis? It followed four people with relapsing remitting MS as they were given bone marrow transplants that are more usually reserved for cancer patients. I say ‘transplant ‘ but the stem cells are taken …