Stem cell therapy

August 9, 2017August 9, 2017

India’s Advancells Reports Successful Reversal of MS in Single Patient Using Stem Cell Therapy

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Advancells says its stem cell-based therapy completely reversed multiple sclerosis (MS) in an Indian pilot trial with only one MS patient. The patient, Rahul Gupta, was diagnosed ... Read more

August 4, 2017August 3, 2017

A Warning About ‘Stem Cell Tourism’

Columns, The MS Wire - A Column by Ed Tobias

I regularly see comments on various social media sites from MS patients who have traveled, or who plan to travel, outside the U.S. to be treated ... Read more

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

MS News That Caught My Eye This Week: Stem Cell Cautions, Myelin Mystery, Amprya Study and Zinbryta in the EU

Columns, The MS Wire - A Column by Ed Tobias

In case you missed them, here are some news stories that appeared in MS News Today that caught my eye over the past week. Experts Call for ... Read more

January 4, 2017January 4, 2017

Top 10 Multiple Sclerosis Articles of 2016

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A number of important discoveries, therapeutic developments, and events related to multiple sclerosis (MS) were reported daily by Multiple Sclerosis News Today throughout 2016. Now that the year ... Read more

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016

Welcome or Not, FDA Focuses on Stem Cell Treatments

Columns, What's Important Now -- An MS Column by Ian Franks

News that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to hold a public hearing next month to consider greater oversight of stem cell clinics operating ... Read more

August 22, 2016December 16, 2016

HSCT as MS Therapy: An American’s Tale

Columns, Engaging Thoughts

Karen Staman and I met a while back through a National Institute of Health and Duke University research collaborative effort.  She is a scientific writer by ... Read more

August 17, 2016August 16, 2016

New Pre-HSCT Treatment May Be the Future, but HSCT with Lower Dose Chemo is Right Choice for MS Patients Now

Columns, What's Important Now -- An MS Column by Ian Franks

News that scientists in the U.S. are working to find a new pre-HSCT treatment to carry out stem cell transplants without the need for chemotherapy, as ... Read more

July 25, 2016December 16, 2016

MS BLOG: Sort Anecdotal Claims, Real Science Before Research Treatments

Columns, Engaging Thoughts

Can we all agree that research studies are important and they are necessary to prove whether a concept works or it doesn’t? Even from the biggest ... Read more

June 29, 2016July 26, 2016

MS Clinic Using ‘Liberation Therapy’ Being Investigated for Alleged False Claims

Columns, What's Important Now -- An MS Column by Ian Franks

Allegations that false claims regarding treatment were made to potential patients, as well as one of its proponents having at least one fake degree, are being ... Read more

June 6, 2016July 26, 2016

Stem Cell Transplants – an Exciting MS Therapy Development

Columns, What's Important Now -- An MS Column by Ian Franks

Stem cell treatment of MS, which came under the spotlight at last week’s 16th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) when Dr. Mark ... Read more

May 19, 2016June 17, 2016

Modern Medicine’s Promising Future for MS Treatment: Stem Cell Therapy

Multiple sclerosis research shows that adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy may potentially repair the damage and inflammation seen in the nervous system of patients with MS. ... Read more

February 22, 2016February 22, 2016

MS Stem Cell Therapies Show Promise, But More Work Is Needed, Researcher Tells ACTRIMS 2016

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Dr. Andrew Goodman of the University of Rochester discussed the latest research and perspectives on stem cell strategies for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), saying in a presentation at the ... Read more

February 2, 2016February 2, 2016

Individual with PPMS Shares His Experience of Undergoing Stem Cell Therapy

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Geoff Flynn, 42, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) two and a half years ago. As unsettling as that diagnosis was, more troubling — both then and ... Read more

January 25, 2016

Last Week’s Hot Topic on Multiple Sclerosis

Last week’s hot topic on Multiple Sclerosis was the Potential MS Stem Cell Therapy Moves into Phase 2 Trial for 1st Time in US written by Carolina Henriques. The ... Read more

January 21, 2016January 22, 2016

FDA Invites Comment on Pending Stem Cell Therapy Regulations

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a one-day public hearing on four recent draft guidelines regarding the regulation of human cells, tissues, or cellular or ... Read more