Medications

Added benefit of fampridine is not proven

Fampridine (trade name Fampyra) has been approved in Germany since July 2011 for adult patients suffering from a higher grade walking disability (grades 4 to 7 on the EDSS disability status scale), as a result of multiple ...

Medications

First cannabis-derived drug authorised for France

France has for the first time approved prescription use of a drug derived from cannabis—a mouth spray used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms, the government said Thursday.

Medications

Budesonide yields durable reduction in eGFR for IgA nephropathy

For patients with immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy, nine months of treatment with targeted-release formulation of budesonide (Nefecon) yields a greater reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) than placebo, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Managing multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that looks different in everyone who has it—and you may know more people who have it than you think.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Children with tics can be helped by new online treatment

New research from the University of Nottingham demonstrates that online behavior therapy for children with tics, which is supported by therapists, is both effective, safe and could greatly increase the number of children ...

Cardiology

A simple fix to avoid some unnecessary coronary stents

Physician researchers at Thomas Jefferson University suspect that some cases of coronary artery spasm go unrecognized and are incorrectly treated with stents. The good news - there could be a simple fix to eliminate these ...

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