multiple sclerosis (MS)

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Dr Terry Wahls Inspirational Health Journey

Sam Yang | All Out Effort | May 6, 2014

Dr. Terry Wahls gave a now famous TEDx talk in 2011 where she talked about how she had to look beyond conventional medicine to treat her own multiple sclerosis. Prior to that, she was like many other physicians...

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Dr Wahls’ Super-Nutrient Paleo Diet, That Reversed Her Multiple Sclerosis

Julianne Taylor | Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition | February 8, 2012

I’ve just finished reading “Minding My Mitochondria: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis” By Terry Wahls, MD.  If you haven’t already see the viral video of Dr Wahls talking about her reversal of Multiple Sclerosis, you must, it is inspiring.

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FDA Clears IND For First Clinical Trial Protocol Developed Using Crowdsourcing

Press Release | Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) | December 18, 2012

Transparency Life Sciences, LLC (TLS), the world's first drug development company based on open innovation, today announced that its Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to assess lisinopril as an adjunctive therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read More »

Getting To The Root Of Health And Disease

Terry Wahls | Huffington Post [United Kingdom] | March 9, 2014

I made a mistake for most of my professional career, a mistake nearly all my physician colleagues make...Instead of talking to my patients about food, toxin exposure, or activity level, I prescribed meds and moved on to the next person as quickly as I could...

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How to Make Doctors Irrelevant

Daniela Drake | The Daily Beast | April 23, 2014

After a simple, modified Paleo diet reversed her multiple sclerosis, one doctor is exposing health care and big pharma’s dirty secret: Prescriptions don’t make you well. Read More »

Hundreds Of Health Care Professionals In Field Of Spinal Cord Injury, Multiple Sclerosis And ALS Health Care Gather In Las Vegas For Paralyzed Veterans Of America’s Annual Summit + EXPO

Staff Writer | HeraldOnline.com | August 25, 2014

Beginning tomorrow, Paralyzed Veterans of America will host its 4th annual Summit + EXPO, bringing together hundreds of researchers, clinicians and health care professionals to learn about the latest treatments and therapies in spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D), multiple sclerosis (MS) and ALS health care...

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Ketogenic Diet Helps Weight Loss, Epilepsy, MS, Alzheimer's And Starves Cancer

Samantha Chang | Examiner.com | October 5, 2014

The low carb, high-fat ketogenic diet has been shown to accelerate weight loss, enhance performance for endurance athletes and manage diseases such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and cancer...

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More Data, Better Drugs: Genetech, PatientsLikeMe Ink Groundbreaking Research Pact

Ron Leuty | BiotechSF - San Francisco Business Times | April 7, 2014

Genentech Inc. will mine the deep online patient network of PatientsLikeMe to pinpoint ways of using patients' real experience with diseases and drugs for better research.  The five-year agreement is the first broad research collaboration between Cambridge, Mass.-based PatientsLikeMe and a drug company, but it also demonstrates how open-source research and social media are increasingly tapped by companies to get real-world insights into diseases and how patients respond to treatments.

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My Interview With Dr. Terry Wahls On Paleo Principles, Functional Medicine And Adopting Healthy Behaviors

Cathy Chester | MultipleSclerosis.net | August 4, 2014

...Dr. Terry Wahls, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa, also lives with secondary progressive MS. She was confined to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years, and decided to change her prognosis by studying research and acquainting herself with functional medicine...

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Telemedicine in Clinical Trials Highlighted At Upcoming Conferences

Press Release | AMC Health | September 9, 2014

...At the Mobile and Clinical Trials Conference on September 10 and the  4th annual Dpharm: Disruptive Innovations in Clinical Trials Conference September 11-12, panelists will describe how telemedicine technology from AMC Health, a pioneer in providing telemedicine solutions for clinical trials, is being used to overcome these limitations...

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Terry Wahls Receives $1 Million Grant to Study Healing Effects of Diet on Multiple Sclerosis

Press Release | University of Iowa Health Care, National Multiple Sclerosis Society | August 24, 2016

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has just committed over $1 million to support a clinical trial at the University of Iowa led by Terry Wahls, MD, to compare the ability of two popular diets to treat multiple sclerosis-related fatigue, a disabling symptom that can significantly interfere with a person's ability to function at home and work. This financial commitment is the latest in the Society's relentless research efforts to move us closer to a world free of MS, and part of a projected investment of $50 million in 2016 alone to support more than 380 new and ongoing studies around the world aimed at stopping the disease in its tracks, restoring function, and ultimately ending MS forever...

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The Lonely Universe Of Autoimmune Diseases

Bonnie Feldman | Rock Health | April 10, 2014

How would you feel if, after years of searching for a diagnosis you finally found out you have an autoimmune disease, and then you realize that your doctors will have to experiment on you to find the right treatment?  That’s the state of the art today in autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s, lupus, and MS.

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Transparency Life Sciences Awarded $1.4 Million NCATS SBIR Grant To Conduct Innovative Trial Of Lisinopril In Multiple Sclerosis

Press Release | Transparency Life Sciences | September 8, 2014

Transparency Life Sciences, LLC (TLS)...today announced that it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program grant to fund a Phase 2a proof-of-concept study testing the utility of the ACE inhibitor lisinopril as an adjunctive therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS).

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TV Star Jack Osbourne Takes To Paleo Diet To Cure Multiple Sclerosis

Afza Fathima | International Business Times | August 7, 2014

The son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, TV star Jack Osbourne, was diagnosed for multiple sclerosis after the birth of his daughter, Pearl. He took to the Paleo diet to help eliminate the inflammation, which he feels is what MS is all about...

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UK Big Data Project To Capture Personal Data and Experiences Of Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Press Release | Imperial College London, Biogen Idec | December 11, 2014

Over an initial three year period, the OPTIMISE project will develop and deploy tools for collecting a wide range of data from people with MS in addition to routine clinical assessments. The project will work to integrate brain scans, genomics data, biomarkers from blood samples, self-reported quality of life measures and data from sensors that track movement into a single database. The project will initially pilot the tools through MS centres in Imperial and three other UK institutions before expanding access to the approach for researchers worldwide. Read More »