Category Archives: MS Treatment

More than 1,300 patients in the Buffalo region with multiple sclerosis have provided evidence that will help doctors around the world better predict who most likely will get the most debilitating form of the disease. Researchers at the University at Buffalo this week released findings of a long-term study which used brain scans of those patients to yield clues about how secondary progressive MS appears to form. They will couple those findings with treatment records that stretch back up to a decade to see what medications and other treatments were used by patients who developed the most serious form of multiple sclerosis and who did not. Continue reading →

Robert De Niro was slapped with a gender discrimination lawsuit Thursday by his former female executive assistant, who claims the "Taxi Driver" star lobbed "abusive and sexist comments" toward her, and engaged in "inappropriate conduct" that included "gratuitous unwanted physical contact." De Niro and his corporate alter ego, Canal Productions, subjected his longtime assistant Graham Chase Robinson "to years of gender discrimination and harassment," Robinson alleges in the suit filed in Manhattan federal court, which also claims he shorted her on overtime pay. "She eventually quit because she could no longer endure the hostile work environment," according to Robinson's suit, which seeks at least $12 million in damages. The complaint contains a link to a profanity-laden voicemail De Niro allegedly left her in which he raged, "How dare you f---ing disrespect me?" "De Niro made demands of Ms Continue reading →

Julie Whitehead, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Published 4:04 a.m. CT Oct Continue reading →

New York Times journalists Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly have published the results of their nearly year-long investigation into Brett Kavanaugh and the allegations against him by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez in The Education of Brett Kavanaugh. The authors interviewed many friends and acquaintances of Kavanaugh, Ford and Ramirez, compiling the record and turning up some unreported evidence. I had hoped that The Education of Brett Kavanaugh would be like Strange Justice, Jane Mayers and Jill Abramsons 1994 outstanding investigation of the Clarence Thomas hearings. Continue reading →

ALBANY There was a time when the diagnosis of H.I.V. was a death sentence, when thousands of New Yorkers, primarily gay men, succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses, and the end of the epidemic seemed both medically and mentally impossible Continue reading →

Bhavya Narapureddy,1 Divyanshu Dubey1,2 1Departments of Neurology Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 2Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Correspondence: Divyanshu DubeyDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, and Neurology, 200 First Street S.W., Rochester, MN 55905, USAEmail Dubey.divyanshu@mayo.edu Abstract: Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) is an oral disease-modifying therapy approved for management of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients. Results from phase 3 clinical trials (DEFINE, CONFIRM) and follow-up study (ENDORSE) have provided good evidence for its efficacy and safety profile Continue reading →

Sunday marks one year since Brett Kavanaughs confirmation to the Supreme Court. For many women, the outrage still seethes over the treatment of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez and the Senates ultimate 50-48 vote to confirm. Continue reading →

AN ordinary man with ordinary interests, Patrick Keane loves life, even though it has become more of a challenge than ever before. Continue reading →

The latest headlines in your inbox The parents of a severely-disabled five-year-old girl have won an emotional High Court battle to keep their daughter alive and take her to Italy for further treatment. Specialists at the Royal London Hospital believe Tafida Raqeeb has no chance of recovery from permanent brain damage and say life support should be withdrawn to allow the youngster to die. Continue reading →

Meurer and Silbergleit are principal investigators of a new clinical trial that will explore whether whole-body cooling improves the survival and recovery of comatose patients after a cardiac arrest, and if increasing durations of cooling are associated with better outcomes and recovery in these patients. Meurer and Silbergleit are joined by Romergryko Geocadin, M.D., from Johns Hopkins Medicine, as well as Sharon Yeatts, Ph.D., and Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., from Medical University of South Carolina, as leaders of the study, which is funded by nearly $30 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health Continue reading →