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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…