MS Stem Cell Treatment "Success"

[Warpy]

Stem-cell transplants may control and even reverse multiple sclerosis symptoms if done early enough, a small study has suggested.

Not one of 21 adults with relapsing-remitting MS who had stem cells transplanted from their own bone marrow deteriorated over three years.

And 81% improved by at least one point on a scale of neurological disability, The Lancet Neurology reported.

Further tests are now planned, and a UK expert called the work "encouraging".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7858559.stm

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That is just tremendous.

[Orrex]

2. What a wonderful story!

I've already forwarded the link to a good friend who suffers from MS. Preliminary though it is, it's still an exciting development!

Thanks for posting!

[Mojorabbit]

3. I hope they can develop

something that works for someone like myself who is 23 years into it. Great news.

[MADem]

4. WOW. Next, go after blindness, diabetes, heart disease!!!

This is so exciting...and we've wasted eight long years.

The wife of a cousin of mine died from the side effects of MS. She lasted a long long while, but it got her in the end. Wish this had come sooner.

[cosmik debris]

5. Kick--This is actually important news,

It should not be buried in the anti vax superstition threads.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Very encouraging news!