Tweet Six trials to Watch. Four for BTKi, CD40-CD40L and CD19 and here they are sold as inhibitors of progressive disease, but in reality they are all B cell inhibitors. BTKi may not be B cell depleters and so far two have been abit not good in relapsing disease and two are not being tested…
Category: Multiple Sclerosis Research
Mild MS disability causes hidden workplace challenges, study finds
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have mild disability still experience several disease-related difficulties at work — challenges that can lead employees to shift to part-time or possibly quit their jobs — even after their condition is disclosed, a new study in Norway highlights. In particular, there are three key ways that even mild MS…
Life Reflections
There are many times when the memories from the past can blind us from where we are going in life. It is only natural for all humans to hold a grudge and not know the best way to release those emotions. Often, we let our past experiences dictate our future, and while this can sometimes…
Global experts outline new strategy to help prevent multiple sclerosis
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….
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…