A group of international experts has proposed a first-of-its-kind framework aimed at preventing multiple sclerosis (MS) from developing. Rather than focusing on a single cause, the framework outlines multiple opportunities to lower MS risk across a person’s life, from reducing childhood obesity and viral exposures to addressing smoking and low vitamin D levels in adulthood….
Month: January 2026
Queensland family awarded MS Australia’s highest honour for outstanding service to the MS community
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Tasmanian neurologist Professor Bruce Taylor honoured with 2025 MS Research Award from MS Australia
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MS Australia honours Melbourne neurologist Professor Helmut Butzkueven with 2025 MS Research Award
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What should be the focus of research in MS?
Tweet It’s only now that I’ve had the chance to listen to a podcast I recorded back in September on the Final Day Highlights of ECTRIMS 2025, which has inspired this post. If you’d like to listen to it here is the link: Final Day Highlights of ECTRIM…–The ECTRIMS Podcast – Apple Podcasts So, what…
Diagnosis MS
Tweet Sousa-Santos PEM, da Rocha FCG. A visual reinterpretation of the 2024 McDonald criteria for multiple scleroris. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2026 Jan 4;107:106971. The 2024 revision of the McDonald criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS) has recently been published. This update introduces several important advances aimed at achieving an earlier and more specific diagnosis, particularly…
How to assay for MOGAD…That’s a question…I bet ProfAngry has an answer
Tweet This is one to get ProfA’s juices going many years ago MS was a T cell mediated disease but recently it has been found that some conditions thought to be MS were actually different conditions and they have been split from MS. Notably Aquaporin-four specific antibodies have been associated with neuromyelitis optica and myelin…
Political Bias Chaos
The United States is supposed to be a free country where individuals can express their own opinions without fear of harm. Unfortunately, we are living in a country with too much hatred that is being inflamed by politics. Friends and families are arguing because of their political views, which is causing too much animosity. This…
Covid infection associated with anti-EBV
Tweet Lorenz P, Steinbeck F, Fricke F, Mai F, Bergmann-Ewert W, Wossidlo C, Reisinger EC, Müller-Hilke B. Patients Suffering From Post-COVID-19 Syndrome Feature Enhanced Antibody Reactivity Towards Specific Linear Epitopes Within EBV EBNA1. Scand J Immunol. 2026; 103(1):e70088. Post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS; also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, PASC and Long COVID) manifests with various…
Gut bacteria may trick immune system into triggering MS: Mouse study
Inflammatory gut bacteria that carry proteins structurally similar to myelin, a protective layer surrounding nerve fibers that is damaged in multiple sclerosis (MS), may trigger the development and progression of the disease, according to a new study done in mouse models. The findings may pave the way toward new approaches to treat MS by targeting…