MS: Many Stories – Caring For My Mental Health MStranslate January 30, 2019 Community, Mental Health, MS: Many Stories, Symptoms 2 Comments Recently, Brett has begun interacting with the Multiple Sclerosis thread on Reddit. During one of these discussions, he started having a conversation with a father about his daughter’s MS journey and, in...
Enhancing Our Knowledge of B Cells in MS MStranslate January 29, 2019 B Cells, Basic Sciences, Research In October 2018, our co-founder and chief science communicator, Brett Drummond, was lucky enough to get the opportunity to travel to and attend the ECTRIMS Congress in Berlin. Following that fantastic meeting,...
B Cells & Their Role in Multiple Sclerosis MStranslate January 4, 2019 B Cells, Basic Sciences, Research, Understanding Science 1 Comment B cells…we hear about them all the time in relation to multiple sclerosis, but what actually are they? Having done a poll on our Facebook page earlier in the week, we found that many people aren’t quite...
Food Allergies & Increased Disease Activity In MS MStranslate January 2, 2019 Basic Sciences, Diet, Lifestyle, Research Recently, we featured a Facebook post that mentioned the results of two major US studies, including one that looked at the links between multiple sclerosis and food allergies (the other on asthma and MS can be...
Asthma More Common In People With MS MStranslate December 28, 2018 Basic Sciences, Research 1 Comment Recently, we featured a Facebook post that mentioned the results of two major US studies, one of which looked at the links between multiple sclerosis and asthma. This generated a huge reaction from our...
Facebook Live: Funding Multiple Sclerosis Research MStranslate December 18, 2018 Community, Research On December 12, 2018, Brett Drummond (our Co-Founder and Chief Science Communicator) held a Facebook Live event to explore the issue of how multiple sclerosis research is...
The Nose Knows: Can Smell Be A Marker Of MS Progression? MStranslate December 6, 2018 Research Research Summary: Smelling multiple sclerosis: Different qualities of olfactory function reflect either inflammatory activity or neurodegeneration WHAT? A research study investigating whether specific...
What influences the choice of treatment in MS? MStranslate November 28, 2018 Research, Treatments, Uncategorized Research Summary: Understanding treatment decisions from the perspective of people with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis: A critical interpretive synthesis The past decade has seen a number of new...
EBV-Specific T Cell Therapy for Progressive MS MStranslate November 20, 2018 Epstein-Barr virus, Infection, Progressive MS, Research, Treatments Research Summary: Epstein-Barr virus-specific T cell therapy for progressive multiple sclerosis Last week, during our Facebook Live Q&A, we discussed the potential role of Epstein-Barr Virus or EBV in...
ECTRIMS 2018: The Gut Microbiome in MS MStranslate November 19, 2018 Conferences, ECTRIMS, Research 1 Comment "It is intriguing...can you modulate the gut microbiome to improve outcomes in MS, such as reducing relapse rates? That would be a fabulous end goal!" - Prof Helen Tremlett. The potential role of the gut...
