http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

The article says that stem cell treatment was given to 21 patients at Northwestern who failed other MS therapies and were RRMS for 5 years. None had worse EDSS scores over the 3 year period. Some improved. Only 5 relapsed and they were able to take immunomodulators and recover (again, something they failed before).

Good news.

P.S. This headline made the Drudge Report. The article came out at 7:04 p.m. this evening.

Somewhat encouraging, but still not a cure.

I'm just looking for better things from Stem Cell Research.

I think it's a start. Baby steps..... one at a time.

Here's another item about the same thing :
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0122141144.htm

I had just read this article and was going to post it when I found you had already done so. I will take any good news. Even though I have already passed the early stages... I can't help but think what possibilities there will be for our children and grandchildren who may be lucky enough to not have to get to the more progressive stage.

I was watching David Osmond on American Idol... and his father, Alan, as they interviewed him. I think we would much rather carry the burden ourselves than ever have to see our children go through it.

With this and the positive reports coming from the oral Clabradine trials..... who knows?

One can only hope!

I'm sorry Ann, for sounding so pesimistic....my bad!!

I have been watching baby steps since my 45 yr old DSS was born. It gets a little discouraging when all that big pharma can come up with, is poisonous, temporary bandaids.

What will it take to get another Jonus Salk working on it??

I agree with Sally.....there have been small glimmers of hope here and there, but it's taking soooo long to make any real progress. Yes, maybe something will be available for future generations, but my one wish is to be able to walk again before I die and the clock is ticking!!!!

[QUOTE=Friend2U;456391] I will take any good news. Even though I have already passed the early stages... I can't help but think what possibilities there will be for our children and grandchildren who may be lucky enough to not have to get to the more progressive stage.

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I think it's too late for, every glimmer has gone out for me, but strides have been made in MS. Genetic links get mentioned and it terrifies me about my own kids. I can take it, but please, never them. Every ache, every headache, every teen-sleeping, any clumsiness is pain and agony to me, but I share my thoughts with no one. I think they're OK, but I was OK until I wasn't.

I'm looking to a future without MS, the next generation. Doubt I'll be here, but my children and their's will.

When I was first dx'd, my neuro preached about the great strides being made in MS and that Tysabri was a wonder drug that would halt progression. He said at the time that he believed a cure (or near cure) would be found within a 8 years. This positive outlook went on for a few years. When I went to see him last week and asked how the outlook was and whether anything good was on the horizon he said "not really." I didn't probe much further. He was positive re: clabradine or whatever its called. He is working on the trial. He is also interested in FTY720. Its not like he gave up hope but his response was less enthusiastic. Maybe just a bad day. I'll take it up with him again as it still sits with me.

I'm "young" - or so I'm told...and when I first got sick a year ago, everyone kept raving about how there would be a cure for MS in my lifetime... I admit, it is very hard to hold "hope" when you feel absolutely cruddy.

Meanwhile, all I can do now is try to hope that with the new president here in the States, we will see some great things come from stell cell research.

I guess that's all we have sometimes: hope. And sometimes, it doesn't much feel like it, does it?

I'm heading back to Hopkins on the 11th to meet with my docs to see about going thru HiCy again....

~Keri