University of Alberta’s scientists Marek Michalak and Allison Kraus were working on genetic research unrelated to multiple sclerosis, when they made a truly amazing discovery for MS sufferers all around the globe. The two wound a link between a specific gene and the myelin.

The two scientists discovered that if the protein calnexin is removed, the myelin become loose and weaker – as it happens with MS. “This is the beauty of...

Last week’s announcement by the Minister of Health and Community Services Jerome Kennedy regarding the province’s plans to help the funding of treatment trials for the liberation treatment had a positive impact in the MS community.

According to a study that used MRI scans to detect MS related brain lesions, new legions occurred two to three more times more often during spring and summer, when compared to MRIs taken during the cooler times of the year.

"We found significantly increased levels of disease activity, as defined by new T2 lesion occurrence, during the spring and summer seasons," the study authors wrote in the Aug. 31 issue of Neurology.

The study used 939 brain scans from 44 patients with...

Sufferer from both multiple sclerosis and dystonia, a Scottish patient that spent the last 15 years in pain, managed to find a new meaning of life after undergoing a groundbreaking surgery. The surgery allows him to live pain free.

The surgery he underwent is deep brain stimulation (DBS), and it changed his life for good. According to his doctors, he might be the first patient in the world to have surgery while suffering from both multiple sclerosis and dystonia. As a disease...