That you are a responsible covered entity under HIPAA and a fiduciary for the privacy of your patients’ PHI do not decrease with telemedicine. In fact, it is a setting in which you want to be very careful, particularly if...
Read MoreThat you are a responsible covered entity under HIPAA and a fiduciary for the privacy of your patients’ PHI do not decrease with telemedicine. In fact, it is a setting in which you want to be very careful, particularly if...
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Data suggest that the ascendancy of medicalization, legalization, and social acceptability of...
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Data suggest that the ascendancy of medicalization, legalization, and social acceptability of...
Read MoreThat you are a responsible covered entity under HIPAA and a fiduciary for the privacy of your patients’ PHI do not decrease with telemedicine. In fact, it is a setting in which you want to be very careful, particularly if...
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Perspectives from Patrick Vermersch, MD, Professor of Neurology at Lille University in France, and...
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Data indicate that people living with HIV (PLWHIV) have an increased risk of cardiovascular...
Read MoreThe interim analysis of the EXCHANGE trial suggest that, for patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis, immediate conversion from oral/injectable disease modifying therapies to siponimod without any washout period (within 24...
Read MoreNeutrophil granulocyte (NG)-specific biomarkers have high sensitivity and specificity for rapid differentiation between acute neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), anti-MOG-antibody associated disease (MOGAD), and...
Read MoreDuring pregnancy and the disease-modifying treatment (DMT)-free postpartum period, serum neurofilament-light (sNfL) levels were augmented [1]. This increase was independent of relapses, suggesting increased subclinical disease...
Read MoreNeurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) can detect brain microstructural and metabolic alterations after the first demyelinating event in MS [1]. There was increased axonal dispersion in normal-appearing white...
Read MoreIn an observational French cohort study, Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and age were found to be independent risk factors of severe COVID-19, while exposure to immunomodulating disease-modifying treatment (DMT;...
Read MorePeople with MS are not more susceptible to COVID-19 infection than the UK general population, suggest results of the largest community-based study of COVID-19 in people with MS worldwide [1]. During lockdown, with strict...
Read MoreNo overall differences in the functional diversity of the gut microbiome were found in patients with pediatric-onset MS in a study using metagenomic sequencing. However, there were differences in the functional potential...
Read MoreInterim results from two phase 2 studies provide evidence that orally delivered CNM-Au8 (gold nanocrystals) have catalytic effects on key bioenergetic metabolites in the brain of patients with MS and Parkinson’s disease...
Read MoreLong-term efficacy and safety results of eculizumab monotherapy in patients with aquaporin-4 IgG-positive (AQP4+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) during the PREVENT trial and/or its ongoing open-label extension...
Read MoreMost pivotal disease-modifying treatment (DMT) trials miss an opportunity to evaluate and understand sex differences. There seem to be unexplored sources of bias in observational and interventional studies. Greater attention is...
Read MoreMasitinib is a first-in-class tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting the innate immune system. Results from a randomised trial with innovative design features indicated it may present a new treatment option for primary progressive...
Read MoreCerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and beta-amyloid (Aβ) proteins are among the biomarkers currently applied in other neurodegenerative diseases than MS. Partly due to conflicting results, not a single biomarker of axonal damage in...
Read MoreFor one of the most prevalent a specific symptoms of MS, fatigue, methylphenidate, modafinil, and amantadine are commonly prescribed. Substantial evidence supporting their efficacy is lacking, however. In the randomized...
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