Not sure if this link will work but here goes........

Is This Clinical Trial Fully Registered? — A Statement from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

Dear all,

Sorry, my favourite subject again, neuro-protection.

I posted last week about the UK MS Society research conference which is taking place this week. The focus of the conference is neuro-protection which should, if effective, be beneficial to sufferers of any type of ms. Professor Kenneth Smith is presenting at the conference. I attach a summary of an article which he co-authored and which has just been published. Hopefully, he will say more at ...

Hi all

I am looking for sites aimed at children WITH MS. We have a young boy of 12 who has been made known to us at the MSRC and we are helping him to find contacts etc with other children with our nasty friend.

If anyone knows of a site could you let me know?

Thanks in advance

squiffs

Treatment with solumedrol is supposed shorten an exacerbation and perhaps limit the damage done, but its protective/anti inflammatory effect is temporary and apparently doesn't change the course of the disease. I'm soliciting opinions (of your own or relayed from your doctors) on how bad or "functionally significant" an exacerbation should be to warrant a steroid treatment. When you have had such a treatment (solumedrol, methyprednisone, etc.), how bad were your symptoms?

Some basic research that could have interesting implications for the MS disease process.


Newly discovered 'branding' process helps immune system cells pick their fights

18 May 2005 -- Scientists have uncovered a new method the immune system uses to label foreign invaders as targets to be attacked. Researchers showed that the immune system can brand foreign proteins by chemically modifying their structure, and that these modifications increased the chances that cells known as lymphocytes would ...

Dear all,

The UK MS Society is holding its annual research conference next week. A key issue of the conference is neuro-protection. A copy of the programme is attached. Lets hope that something positive comes out of this event.

Bromley

http://www.mssociety.org.uk/doc_store/M ... rs2005.pdf

Hi Everyone

I don't know about everyone else but I constantly have thoughts running through my head about the how MS is triggered and also what agrivates it in the body.

I have these thoughts at the moment and just wanted some feedback as the accuracy of them.

It started with Didnnan's post 24/2/05 regarding Zonulin - the protein found in the Intestines.

This is the link to the article:-

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=7937 ...

Wondering if any of you have experienced thyroid issues or even been tested for them.

I recently found out that hypothyroidism runs on both sides of my family--brother, maternal aunt, mother, maternal great aunt, and now, paternal grandfather. I got curious and looked up thyroid and MS on the web and found this study, Prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis and non-immune thyroid disease in multiple sclerosis:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract

I ...

If you have not joined yet check out the free Yahoo group. They have some great poll questions and discussions. Great links also. :P

Here is the link:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mu ... osispolls/

The link below connects you to a 3-part online video interview with Elaine Delack and an alternative view to MS and its treatment. (about an hour long) You should have hi-speed internet service to view it properly.

Some medical people agree with Elaine while many adamantly don't but like anything dealing with MS these days, the differences of opinion about this disease are large. In the past couple of years more MS docs have stated ...