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Professor Carole Longson, director of the health technology evaluation centre at Nice, said: "While it's important that people with multiple sclerosis have treatment options, Nice has to ensure that the NHS provides treatments that bring benefits that are value for money. "Unfortunately, ...

CCSVI being highly associated with MS would make it a significant one of those factors. Unfortunately, the bulk of the studies coming out now do not demonstrate an association with MS much less "highly" associated. For some reason, Dr. Zamboni is standing alone in this regard. I would lik...

Taken seriously ? Are you kidding? He deserves a Nobel prize ! Zamboni was studying arterial flow via color Doppler . These tests show red as oxygenated blood and blue as deoxygenated venous blood and he noticed that people with MS had reflux (which looks purple) After he saw this finding a few tim...

why would there be bleeding in the brian when veins drain blood ? Just a guess, but if her BP was very high, it may have caused the brain bleeding. Don't quote me.. JMO so it had nothing ro do with venoplasty... again Someone is poking around in her blood vessels and a few hours later she's sufferi...

Today the news changed a bit. I still pray for this women and may she rest in peace. My condolences to her family. This latest article said died of natural causes. :?: CD < shortened url > I, too, am sad at Maralyn's death. Like others, I didn't know her personally, but we are all partners in this ...

...“Our data set includes a number of ultrasound parameters not included in the Zamboni definitions,” explains A/Prof Chambers. “We intend to apply advanced statistical methods to determine which if any ultrasound variables are more prevalent in MS. Our results in healthy controls will also provide...

They seem to have 0% in all subjects (pwMS and healthy)?? "....that no subjects so far studied have CCSVI according to the criteria proposed by Zamboni...." Their analysis seems to be flawed. R. Or maybe they've just got good sonographers who don't press down too hard and therefore don't ...

Does anybody have any links to hard rather than anecdotal evidence that MS causes insomnia?

So far on the interweb on medical sites at least I can only find insomnia listed as a secondary symptom of MS...

Thank you in advance for your help!

1. German/Doepp/Doppler Study: In the current issue of the Annals, Florian Doepp, M.D., and colleagues in Germany performed an extended extra- and trans-cranial color-coded sonography study on 56 MS patients (36 female; 20 male) and 20 control subjects (12 female; 8 male). The analysis included ext...

Hello Bil, I am in that FTY720 trial and have completed one year of it. It is after 2 years that you get offered the real medication. I don't even know what dose they will offer me but the neuro said that they will not leave me without it. So far, so good. No side effects at all. No great gains eit...

I'm a newbie to both is site and to to MS as I received my diagnosis of RRMS in November, 2007 from Dartmouth Med Center. I have been evaluated by their MS Clinic and was given information Refib & Copxone. They also suggested to consider applying for an opening in the FTY720 phase III trials. I...

I am very encouraged by rHIgM22. It's not even toxic, I want to try it today. Anything to reduce the effects of short circuiting wiring. Avonex rocks (5 days a week), well I haven't accquired any new stuff in over 2 years for it. The two together I reckon is the basis of a real management for this ...

I am sure I have also heard of something similar with mino. Does anyone know of any comparisons / scientific best guesses over the comparison between doxy and minocycline? If I remember correctly there was a study (I think in-vitro and mice) comparing the neuroprotective effects of 4 members of the...

I am sure I have also heard of something similar with mino. Does anyone know of any comparisons / scientific best guesses over the comparison between doxy and minocycline? If I remember correctly there was a study (I think in-vitro and mice) comparing the neuroprotective effects of 4 members of the...

Here is another piece of research published today. http://www.msif.org/goexternal.rm?id=3906 That's a very interesting piece of research, they're doing really good work at UCL and Cambridge. From what I've read before it seems that the problem of getting the stem cells to the correct locations was ...