So some friends of mine set up a 501c3 charity for the purpose of raising money for people in our community who need help with medical issues. They have adopted me as their first beneficiary since I have been accepted by dr burt for hsct and denied by insurance for entry into the trial. The next step is for the foundation to raise 135k for the procedure. Some of you guys have come up with ...

Israel-based BrainStorm is developing NurOwn for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but according to the researchers these stem cells can be used for MS as well. The interim results are very promising:

" "It's very uncommon to give at such an early point in a clinical study efficacy data, but we cannot ignore the fact on an individual basis we could see improvement in many of the patients involved, each one in different ...

Exciting news but sounds to good to be true.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Dia ... story.html

It looks like Johns Hopkins is working on another approach to reboot the immune system by using a certain chemotherapy drug that destroys immune system cells with the exception of stem cells (no transplant required).

http://m.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hicy_drug_regimen_reverses_ms_symptoms_in_selected_patients

It seems to be similar to what Dr. Burt is doing at Northwestern but does not require stem cell harvesting. It is an early trial with a limited number of patients but from what I have read it is ...

Rudimentary liver grown in vitro
http://www.nature.com/news/rudimentary- ... ro-1.10848

Japanese scientists coax pluripotent cells to form functional liver tissue.

Stem cell therapy shows prospects for severe neurological diseases




According to experts at the Meeting of the European Neurological Society in Prague, current research findings give reason to hope that different types of stem cells could open up new prospects in therapy for severe neurological diseases such as stroke, Parkinson's or MS. But given the many unresolved issues, neurologists warn about dangerous promises of cures from unscrupulous providers.

"There are a number of highly ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story? ... 9WbZeWJlVU
HI Freinds my name is seeva and found this news on stemcell-Scintists have been able to produce nerve cells in the lab using stemcell drawn from bone marrows. please read the attached web for more informations
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A UC Irvine immunologist will receive $4.8 million to create a new line of neural stem cells that can be used to treat multiple sclerosis.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 052412.php

Hello everyone

I am new to this web site. I am Stella, originally from Rome, Italy. I don’t have MS and I am here to share something with you. I am helping a friend (American) with raising funds for his treatment. I have known him for a year now. His name is Matt and he was diagnosed with MS when he was 20 years old. He’s about to turn 22 now and he has been ...