A type of immune cell that has received little attention in multiple sclerosis (MS) research may play a key role in driving the disease. A study found that some people with MS had abnormally high levels of virus-fighting CD8 T-cells in the fluid surrounding the…
Tweet The are some people that believe that MS is caused by EBV and there are some of then that think there are EBVvariants that cause MS. Now i can buy the former view but as to the latter view I say where is the…
Tweet Cladribine enters the CNS and about 25% of the levels in the blood reach the brain and so active levels of cladribine can enter the CNS. In this study they say “Regarding OCBs status, OCBs disappeared in five patients while they were detected in…
Tweet Although it sounds like a character out of Gladiator III….Vidofludimus (calcium) is not a Russel Crowe look alike…but it is a teriflunomide look alike. It is not a generic of teriflunomide but works in the same way. Teriflunomide is the active breakdown product of…
Tweet Giovannoni G, Payne O, Valero-Hernández E, Kang AS, Kaur Singh B, Baker D, Harris K, Cutino-Moguel T, James LK, Bloom BM. Post-streptococcal Autoimmunity and Its Relevance to Epstein-Barr virus as the Potential Cause of Multiple Sclerosis. J Infect Dis. 2026 Feb 12:jiag035. Source: multiple-sclerosis-research.org
A clinical trial testing TG Therapeutics‘ CD20 inhibitor Briumvi (ublituximab-xiiy) in children with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) will begin enrolling participants within the next few months, the developer announced, also unveiling details of the study’s design. The upcoming Phase 2/3 trial (NCT07220252) will…
It took exactly 14 days for my health insurance to pick the first fight with me this year. The letter arrived quietly, the way these things always do. Denied. Out of network. This time it was Octave Bioscience’s Multiple Sclerosis Disease Activity (MSDA) test, a…
Kindness is something we encounter more often than we realize. At some point, each of us has been at the receiving end of someone’s patience, and those moments stay with us. When we choose to be kind, we keep that … Continue reading → Source:…
Immunic Therapeutics‘ experimental oral therapy vidofludimus calcium can target key mechanisms underlying disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS), including acute and chronic inflammation, as well as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation, according to new trial data. The Phase 2 CALLIPER trial (NCT05054140) investigated vidofludimus calcium against a…
Like many of my peers in the military, I developed the ability to fall asleep in any position or place and at any time that I wasn’t actively engaged in something. On one occasion, during a particularly loud and turbulent flight, I managed to stay…