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MS Treatment Options, Relapse, Adherence, MS101 and Symptom Management -This is Part 2 of 2 – Video

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

MS Treatment Options, Relapse, Adherence, MS101 and Symptom Management -This is Part 2 of 2 Part 2 of 2 - Videotaped on: August 6, 2013 - in Orlando, Fl. A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS - Presented By: Patricia Pagnotta - MSN, ARNP-C To P... By: MSViewsandNews … Continue reading →

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MS Treatment Options, Relapse, Adherence, MS101 and Symptom Management -This is Part 1 of 2 – Video

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

MS Treatment Options, Relapse, Adherence, MS101 and Symptom Management -This is Part 1 of 2 Emceed By Stuart Schlossman - President and Founder of MSVN ========================== This video is Part 1 of 2 an MS Views and News education program Video... By: MSViewsandNews … Continue reading →

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Local Musician is Busking for Mobility

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Multiple sclerosis, or MS, affects more than 2 million people worldwide, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It affects the central nervous system, often causing numbness and mobility problems. One Cedar Rapids man, armed with only a couple musical instruments, has been performing on the street to help people with the disease. Four years ago, Mark Brown started strumming, singing, and humming to raise money for MS research and treatment. Or as he calls it, "Busking for Mobility." Brown has been a busker - or street performer - for a long time, so he makes it look easy. But playing became a challenge for him 13 years ago. "I had sensations coming down the side of my face, which I was hoping it wasn't an aneurysm, but then I was losing control of my fingers a little bit," Brown recalled. An MRI revealed he had MS. However, it doesn't keep him from carrying a tune. "I got quite a few here, I've got about 200 songs," Brown said. Like any good street performer, Brown takes requests. He knows lot of oldies. "The kids look at me kind of puzzled sometimes," said Brown. "I see a … Continue reading →

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5 Companies Leading the Fight Against Multiple Sclerosis

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

It's a disease that doesn't often find itself in the spotlight, but multiple sclerosis is quickly becoming an ailment that drugmakers are focusing their efforts on to make a quality-of-life difference for patients. MS is a disease in which the body's own autoimmune system attacks its central nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves, disabling it over time. Some of the symptoms of MS can be relatively minor, such as tingling of the limbs, but others can be considerably more severe, including loss of vision and/or paralysis. In recent years, the incidence rate of MS has been on the rise. However, one of the few tidbits of good news here is that this may be because of earlier and proper diagnosis rather than an actual increase in MS as a disease. In total, an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S. suffer from MS, with approximately 10,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Women are more susceptible than men to getting MS, with the diseases in both genders most often diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50. Researchers have also discovered a correlation between age and aggressiveness of the disease. The older a person is at the … Continue reading →

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Important step forward for gait analysis of horses

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

Aug. 19, 2013 Gait and movement pattern are essential to the horse, whether it's a question of the horse's well-being, competition riding or breeding. For the first time, new research made in collaboration between University of Copenhagen and The Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom makes it possible to use sensors to accurately measure a horse's movements and to quantify limb movement outside the traditional gait laboratory. This provides veterinarians as well as breeders and trainers with a number of new possibilities. The new results have just been published in the Journal of Biomechanics. Horses who develop a limp are one of the major sources of frustration for horse owners as well as vets. The same applies for Wobblers disease (ataxia) where growth abnormalities or articular process joint osteoarthritis put pressure on the spinal cord causing ataxic gait. At least one in a hundred horses develop Wobblers disease, which often leads to the horse having to be euthanased. Both lameness and Wobblers disease have an effect on a horses gait, and so far veterinarians have only been able to study horse movement in a gait-laboratory, which commonly only allows study of a few steps at a time on a … Continue reading →

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Finding a balance for menopause treatment

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

By Julie Deardorff Chicago Tribune AFTER A DECADE of rancorous debate over the risks and benefits of menopausal hormone therapy, experts from more than a dozen top medical organizations worldwide have finally come to something resembling a consensus. What did they decide, and why are women still baffled? Menopausal hormone therapy, also called hormone replacement therapy, is a treatment for women in the throes of menopause, the inevitable period of life when estrogen naturally declines. Taking estrogen or a combination of estrogen and another hormone, progestin, the synthetic form of progesterone, can alleviate some of the symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia and vaginal dryness, Hormone therapy has been under intense scrutiny since 2002, when a large study called the Women's Health Initiative reported that taking additional hormones specifically the combination of estrogen and progestin increased the risk of blood clots, stroke, breast cancer, heart attacks and gall bladder disease for some women. For a woman with a uterus, estrogen treatment alone raises her chance of getting endometrial cancer. The researchers abruptly halted the study, concluding that risks outweighed benefits. Almost overnight, millions of women abandoned hormone therapy. Since then, however, we've learned that hormone therapy What's … Continue reading →

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Rumble.21: Shwetha Shekar – Stem cell research using umbilical cords – 2/3 – Video

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

Rumble.21: Shwetha Shekar - Stem cell research using umbilical cords - 2/3 Rumbling with Shwetha Shekar, a genetic engineer who moved into acting in Kollywood. Stem cell research using umbilical cords. Can also save a life. Hosted b... By: Suresh Menon … Continue reading →

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Is Stem Cell Research Murder? – Video

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

Is Stem Cell Research Murder? Clean Cut: Episode Directory http://nameunderheaven.blogspot.com/2013/06/clean-cut-lets-talk-about-truth.html Clean Cut; Episode 95 What is a stem cell? What... By: mytruepower2 … Continue reading →

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Stem cell startup in global rollout

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

Cambridge stem cell technology startup Axol Bioscience has made a lightning fast opening to its global commercialisation strategy. Axols proprietary brain stem cells are produced from reprogrammed human blood cells, known as iPS cells, and the new distribution network will manage sales and support in the US, Japan, Scandinavia and several territories in mainland Europe including Germany, Italy and Switzerland. The move marks a strong statement of intent from the young business which is backed by Abcam CEO Jonathan Milner, now also chair of Axol. Axol primed to address a $15 billion dollar global neurobiology research market is regarded as having a significant ethical edge as its products eliminate the need for testing human disease pathologies in animal models. Axol is applying cutting-edge stem cell technologies to generate high quality human neural stem cells and neurons. Cerebral cortical neurons are implicated in numerous neurological diseases including Alzheimers, autism, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and stroke. Despite growing support for research in these areas, high quality human in vitro cell models for cortical neurophysiology have been unavailable until now. Axol has led the launch of its technology with a focus on providing both healthy and Alzheimers disease relevant human neurons derived from … Continue reading →

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Fibrocell Science/UCLA Study on the Generation of Clinical Grade iPS Cells Yields Promising Results

Posted: Published on August 19th, 2013

EXTON, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fibrocell Science, Inc. (NYSE MKT:FCSC), announced today positive results from a study demonstrating a potential mechanism for converting research-grade adult skin cells into clinical grade induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The study, entitled Generation and characterization of transgene-free human induced pluripotent stem cells and conversion to putative clinical-grade status will be published in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cell Research and Therapy. The provisional paper is available online at http://stemcellres.com/content/4/4/87/abstract. The study was conducted under the guidance of James Byrne, Ph.D., assistant professor, UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research. In addition to providing proof of concept for this reprogramming method of converting adult skin cells to iPS cells, the study confirmed that researchers can effectively remove unwanted non-human contaminants from stem cell populations derived under research-grade conditions. A variety of tests were used to determine whether the converted stem cell population was viable, expressed markers identifying them as stem cells, was free of microorganisms and no longer expressed non-human contaminants. Positive test results proved that these stem cells were free of unwanted non-human factors. The iPS cells generated from the study were also … Continue reading →

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