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Hi everybody, I know my question doesn´t belong to this forum, but maybe somebody can help me. I´m an europien patient with MS, I don´t spek english as a mother tongue. Today we got in a school Topics for essay writeing( I have one course in English language) The topic is: "Team nets how to wo...

She, too, was on the drug for only one short month. However, in that one short month, we (her family) saw drastic improvements in her health. With just one infusion of the drug, she was walking better, talking better, thinking more clearly and didn't fall once. Now if this MS patient had taken some...

Well, there is this one microbiologist who is often referred as "dr." , even by his wife which is kind of amusing from a scandinavian perspective. Seriously, it may rise some false expectations about his understanding of clinical and pathological signs of MS. But I suppose you know what y...

"Multiple sclerosis can vary in severity, with the relapsing-remitting type being especially debilitating." I quote the offending language above. My parse would ask "especially, compared to what?" I cannot say what the language "meant to imply." I can only tell, as can ...

Robin, Ian, Harry, Reed You guys made an offer no Finn can refuse. Once this thing is solved I'll take the first plane to London. A couple of drinks after a long dry season (some balance problems at the moment, you know) sounds like an excellent idea. Btw, Harry, Reed, is it ok with you if we meet ...

[/quote] When the mystery is finally solved we should all get together and have a drink (provided the solution comes in our lifetime that is!)

Thanks

Robin[/quote]


I'd like to buy, provided, of course, that drink is not the one thing we're not allowed to do! (It figures.)

Reed

. It is of course only theory but one that I feel best explains the processes seen in MS. I do not believe that suppressing inflammation results in a faster transition from RRMS to SPMS. Robin Thanks for your instructive comment. Is it possible to test the hypothesis expressed in your last sentence...

Finn wrote: here's another quote concerning current therapies: "The disease modifying therapies recombinant betainterferons and glatiramer acetate are now widely used in the treatment of RRMS, but questions remain concerning their efficacy in preventing long term disability. The reduction in re...

[quote="better2gether"]. FDA Drug-Approval Process: Is Criticism of It Fair? May 20, 2005 By Harold J. DeMonaco, M.S. Massachusetts General Hospital .... Multiple sclerosis can vary in severity, with the relapsing-remitting type being especially debilitating. .... I disagree; the FDA is do...

DenverCO wrote:
[Some] are constantly quoting the opinions of anonymous neurologists....

Well, as someone once quoted (without identifying attribution, of course), "A whopping 97% of anonymous neurologists are invariably mistaken."

Reed

. Comments from an Neurologist 2. Most neurologists will welcome its return. Would you please be so kind as to provide the source of this quotation? That way an objective, independent observer can better check up on and evaluate this neurologist's credentials, his or her potential conflicts, and ot...

. 94% Of Neurologists Would Prescribe Tysabri Deborah Knobelman, a biotech analyst at Piper Jaffray, surveyed 134 neurologists who might prescribe the drug, and a whopping 94% said they still see some role for Tysabri. . Unfortunately, experience indicates that a whopping 95% of all neurologists ar...

Too bad they didn't do that up front, though. Shoot, if somebody like little stupid peon me found the medical and corporate evidence that I did (months ago) and then pushed for the very cautions and protocols you just said (in my letter to the FDA and others), then I still am just literally shocked...