Current and emerging treatment for MS in Australia - An update

Following the Progress in MS Research Scientific Conference, a public lecture was held to share the exciting MS research progress with the community.

Professor Helmut Butzkueven, from University of Melbourne presented a lecture titled "Current and emerging treatment for MS in Australia - An update"

MS Research Australia is the largest national not-for-profit organisation dedicated to funding and coordinating multiple sclerosis research in Australia, as part of the worldwide effort to solve MS. Its goal is to accelerate research: into the cause, better treatments and prevention, with the aim of ultimately finding a cure for MS.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults, often diagnosed between the ages of 20 to 40 and affects three times more women than men. As yet, there is no cure. MS is the result of damage to myelin -- a protective sheath surrounding nerve fibres of the central nervous system. When myelin is damaged, this interferes with messages between the brain and other parts of the body. The symptoms of MS are different for each person; sometimes they even vary within the same person. For some, MS is characterised by periods of relapse and remission, while for others it has a progressive pattern. For everyone, it makes life unpredictable.

[yvonnes]

What was the scientist's name, please? Gast-Nozzle?

[chrisismail]

Why not talk more about hsct treatment that fixes.

Rather than using drugs that only slow down progression.

[briankerrison]

Not much working for MS.. even the HSCT doesn’t work.. starting to feel like a lab rat 🤔🤔🥺

[UmYusuf]

i was told by a man from your country involved with MS, that treatments developed in distant countries apply and works only with the people with that country, is that so