MS, or Multiple Sclerosis, is often a relapsing disease that can lead to severe disability and death. Most current treatments offer some minimal help or delay in progression, but are often poorly effective.
Now researchers, in a preliminary study, http://www.sth.nhs.uk/news/news?action=view&newsID=1035, have published early promising results.
They split a group of 110 patients who were having relapses despite best medical therapy into 2 groups of 55, and gave one group a type of stem cell transplant. The transplant gorup had 1 relapse, versus 39 in the other.
This is probably the most dramatic treatment we have seen in MS, and if the 5 year study shows continued good results may be the new normal treatment for MS!
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