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How to: survey now available in Portuguese

The online survey for How to Develop an MS Centre is now available in Portuguese, as well as Spanish and English.

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‘MS and Children’ now available in Spanish

Dr Alexander Burnfield’s article on ‘MS and Children’ from our website is now available in Spanish. Federación Española Para La Lucha Contra La Esclerosis Múltiple (FELEM) has translated ‘MS and Children’ into a booklet, ‘EM. Infancia, adolescencia y familia’ as a downloadable PDF.

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Fabiana Pérez Montañés
Country: Uruguay
Age: 33
Profession: Assistant Professor in Imunohistochemistry, Cytology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
Year of diagnosis: 2003
Type of MS: Relapse remitting

"Everything leaves its imprint and makes us who we are today"

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Longitudinal evaluation of clinically early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis with diffusion tensor imaging.

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an MRI technique which uses the properties of water diffusion to examine tissue microstructure. In this study, DTI parameters reflected damage to the normal appearing tissues in patients with MS, but did not detect any progression in this damage after 2 years.

authors: Rashid W, Hadjiprocopis A, Davies G, Griffin C, Chard D, Tiberio M, Altmann D, Wheeler-Kingshott C, Tozer D, Thompson A, Miller DH.

source: J Neurol. 2008 Mar 20 [Epub ahead of print]

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Combined treatment with atorvastatin and minocycline suppresses severity of EAE.

This study in an animal model of MS investigates whether atorvastatin, a drug currently used to lower cholesterol, and minocycline, an antibiotic, have potential as neuroprotective agents when used in combination.

authors: Luccarini I, Ballerini C, Biagioli T, Biamonte F, Bellucci A, Rosi MC, Grossi C, Massacesi L, Casamenti F.

source: Exp Neurol. 2008 Feb 14 [Epub ahead of print]

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Use of combined conventional and quantitative MRI to quantify pathology related to cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis.

This MRI study used several different techniques to measure abnormalities in the corpus callosum in 36 patients with MS, and found that some measures corresponded with poor performance on tests of cognitive function.

authors: Lin X, Tench CR, Morgan PS, Constantinescu CS.

source: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008 Apr;79(4):437-41. Epub 2007 Aug 2

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US: Six hundred walks. One destination. A world free of MS.

Over the next two months hundreds of thousands of people will join the National MS Society’s (NMSS) 2008 Walk MS and Challenge Walk events throughout the US. An experience like no other, participants walk together to make a powerful statement, and to keep moving towards a cure.

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