What Recent Advances Have Been Made in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research?

What Recent Advances Have Been Made in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research? (0:55)

Promising advances in MS treatment include new drugs that can control MS symptoms and stop progression, and clinical stem cell trials that could prove to reverse disability in some patients. Watch neurologist Saud Sadiq, MD, discuss these advances.

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So, there are many recent advances in MS that have brought a lot of optimism to the field. Mainly pharmaceutical industries come up with a number of agents that can control the disease especially in it's early form and can stop progression in many patients. However, there's still the case of disability with MS patients that there's no treatment for and in that regard we've just been approved for doing the stem cell trial using a patient's own stem cells manipulating them into nerve stems and injecting them into a spinal fluid.

So the FDI has approved this phase one adrenal that leads to positive results, I think that represents a new hope for repairing and regenerating the does system in these patients and then reversing disability in some patients. But at least it's the beginning and hopefully it will be successful.