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MS Society Scotland votes to stay with UK
(The Scotsman 16/11/2009)
Earlier this year the MS Society's board suspended the devolved Scottish council after rows with the London office. The incident led to MS Society Scotland's patron, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, standing down from the role. On Saturday, at a meeting in Perth, some members called for the Scottish arm of the charity to become independent from the UK body. Of the 836 members who voted, only 17 per cent backed independence.
(BBC 15/11/2009)
As England ended the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Paris in defeat, sports commentator Alastair Hignell breathed a sigh of relief - and not at the result. He was bone-tired after a gruelling series of matches. A former England rugby player himself - as well as a first-class cricketer - he knew his body well enough to know it was time to quit. Despite his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1999, he had flourished in his second career as a commentator.
Teenage obesity link to future MS
(BBC 09/11/2009)
Being obese as a teenager may be linked with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis as an adult, researchers say. A 40-year study of 238,000 women found those who were obese at 18 had twice the risk of developing MS compared to women who were slimmer at that age. Yet body size during childhood or adulthood was not found to be associated with MS risk, the US researchers report in Neurology. But an MS charity warned more research was needed to confirm the findings.
(BBC 31/10/2009)
When Shiv Sharma was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis he was the only South Asian he knew with the condition. Now, seven years later, about 12% of the MS patients treated at London's Charing Cross Hospital are of a South Asian background. Dr Omar Malik, a consultant neurologist at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, said he now wanted to know why UK-born South Asians, such as Shiv, seem to be more susceptible than those who migrated to this country as adults. But he said the reason for this had not been studied. So he and colleagues at St James's Hospital, Leeds, Luke's Hospital in Bradford and Leicester Royal Infirmary, are recruiting 200 South Asians with MS to analyse their DNA.
(Daily Express 13/10/2009)
FOUR years ago, MS sufferer Linda Elsegood was wheelchair-bound, half-blind and half-deaf. She slept 20 hours a day and spent much of the time she was awake in clinics waiting for treatment, often for ailments caused by the drugs she was given to control her multiple sclerosis. Today it's a different story. "I am transformed," says Linda, 53, a busy mother and grandmother from Norfolk, who has regained her independence after taking the drug LDN.
Juggling increases brain power
(BBC 10/10/2009)
Complex tasks like juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain, according to scientists at Oxford University. In the journal, Nature Neuroscience, the scientists say they saw a 5% increase in white matter - the cabling network of the brain. The people who took part in the study were trained for six weeks and had brain scans before and after. Long term it could aid treatments for diseases like multiple sclerosis.
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Arrest over MS sufferer's death
(BBC 28/09/2009)
An 83-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a multiple sclerosis sufferer in Surrey. Libby Wilson, a former GP and right-to-die campaigner, has been questioned on suspicion of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a suicide. Surrey Police said the arrested woman attended Woking Police Station on Monday by appointment. A spokesman for the force said the arrest was in connection with the death of Cari Loder, 48, of Farncombe.
Hopes raised for MS treatment
(BBC 24/08/2009)
Scientists in Bristol claim results from a research project into multiple sclerosis (MS) could lead to treatment to reduce the severity of the disease. The team carried out tests on mice and then on human brain tissue and found galanin, a protein within brain nerve cells, was resistant to MS. Professor David Wraith at the University of Bristol said the results were "extremely promising". The team said it could be at least 10 years before a drug is developed.
Cheap blood pressure drug could fight MS
(The Scotsman 18/08/2009)
A CHEAP drug widely used to reduce blood pressure might help to combat multiple sclerosis. In tests, lisinopril prevented paralysis in mice engineered to develop MS symptoms. It even caused paralysed mice suffering from progressive disease to recover normal movement. The drug is normally used to reduce high blood pressure. But scientists found it also targets inflammatory biological pathways involved in MS [early animal experiments].
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