Protecting brain health through early action in MS

MS breakthrough as NHS offers first pill to help sufferers walk

The NHS is offering a new pill called fampridine, which boosts nerves damaged by multiple sclerosis (MS) to help electrical messages travel more effectively to muscles

NHS rollout for twice-a-day pill which helps MS patients walk easier

It is the first drug designed to improve walking ability in people with MS, an incurable autoimmune disease which affects the brain and spinal cord

Protecting brain health through early action in MS

This article is authored by Dr Charulata Sankhla, consultant neurophysician, PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai.

Piezo2 may help protect against myelin sheath damage in MS

A protein called Piezo2 may help maintain the myelin sheath around nerve fibers, or axons, and could offer a new therapeutic target for preserving myelin in multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a preclinical study. Mice lacking Piezo2 in oligodendrocytes, the cells that make myelin, developed age-related motor problems and abnormal myelin wrapping around small nerve […] The post Study points to new target for protecting myelin in multiple scler…