Report on remission in patients with MS three years after stem cell transplant

[longknife]

Hope for a cure? If so, what other genetic diseases can be successfully treated?


Date: December 29, 2014

Source: The JAMA Network Journals


Summary:

Three years after a small number of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were treated with high-dose immunosuppressive therapy and then transplanted with their own hematopoietic stem cells, most of the patients sustained remission of active relapsing-remitting MS and had improvements in neurological function, according to a study

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[ScienceRocks]

Good news...I am going to repost this in the main medical thread.

I think stem cells has a lot of potential for curing many diseases.

 

[ScienceRocks]

This is a big breakthrough!!!

 

[Stephanie]

That's awesome. I took care of a man with Parkinson's and one with Lou Gehrig's (als)

both like MS are devastating. Hope for relief or cures of them all.