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| Mar 17, 2026 | 23rd State Marks Its Founding Anniversary With a Message for MS Awareness Month: Joy Is Part of Wellness Too | MS Awareness Month
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23rd State Beverages
Minnesota's cannabis beverage company celebrates its founding anniversary, and the journey that made it all possible.
Today marks an important milestone for me in my MS journe... |
| Feb 19, 2026 | Vie Ventures Names Jeff Bluestone, PhD, As Managing Director | Vie Ventures, a life sciences venture capital firm focused on autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases, announced that Jeff Bluestone, PhD, has been named Managing Director. He joins founders Steven St. Peter, MD, and Luke Evnin, PhD, who al... |
| Feb 6, 2026 | Boulder’s Roots Music Project captures Colorado’s music scene on its first vinyl release | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
For years, Roots Music Project has been a working space for Colorado musicians — a place to rehearse, book shows and test new material in front of real audiences at 4747 Pearl St. in Boulder.
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| May 11, 2025 | MS Caregivers Get AI Support with New Chatbot from Accelerated Cure Project | Created by Carl Williams
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| May 8, 2025 | NeuroGenesis Awarded Grant from National MS Society’s Fast Forward Program to Advance Cell Therapy & Phase IIb Trial | NeuroGenesis has been awarded a grant from the National MS Society to advance its NG01 cell therapy and launch its Phase IIb trial for secondary progressive MS.
We are honored to receive this support from the National MS Society. NG01 has s... |
| Jan 10, 2025 | United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation Names Kristen Clifford New President & CEO | The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation Board of Trustees has named Kristen Clifford the organization's next President and Chief Executive Officer.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundat... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | American Brain Foundation Launches $10M Neuroinflammation Research Initiative | What You Should Know:
– The American Brain Foundation has launched a $10 million cross-disciplinary research initiative that transcends traditional research and philanthropy boundaries by bringing together nonprofit organizations, pharmaceu... |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Teri Garr, offbeat comic actress of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died | She was 16 when she joined the road company of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and as early as 1963 she began appearing in bit parts in films.
She recalled in a 1988 interview how she won the “West Side Story” role. After being dropped fr... |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Médunik Canada and the Population Council join in a research partnership for a potential new treatment for multiple sclerosis | If proven safe and effective throughout the remaining stages of research, segesterone acetate (SGA) could be one of the first remyelination therapies approved to treat multiple sclerosis
The project is supported in part by the National Mult... |
| Sep 2, 2024 | DonorDrive Announces Conversion-Focused Enhancements | DonorDrive, creator of an advanced enterprise digital fundraising solution, announced 20 major product enhancements designed to help nonprofit organizations increase revenue for individual giving campaigns, peer-to-peer fundraising, and oth... |
| Jun 8, 2024 | After being diagnosed with MS, he started running marathons. It's helping reverse the disease's progression. | When Derek Stefureac was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease that affects the central nervous system, he was a smoker who never exercised.
Everything changed when he had an "attack" at work when he was 39: His bod... |
| May 4, 2024 | MOGAS Mourns the Death of Their Beloved Chairman and Founder Vincent Louis Mogas | Houston--(ANTARA/Business Wire)-- MOGAS mourns the death of their beloved chairman and founder Vincent Louis Mogas, who died on May 2, 2024 in Houston, Texas. Louis spent his life building a valve manufacturing business and a company cultur... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Octave Bioscience scores $30M for neurodegenerative disease offerings | Photo: Phil Boorman/Getty Images |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Inspirational Speakers, Gourmet Brunch Set for Annual 'Together For A Cure' MS Luncheon August 19 in Orange County | Together For a Cure
MS Supporters to Gather in Newport Beach to Raise Funds and Awareness NEWPORT BEACH, CA, USA, July 20, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- “Together for a Cure,” the signature luncheon in Orange County from the National Multiple S... |
| May 12, 2023 | Christina Applegate says she may give up acting on camera because of MS: "It's never a good day." | Christina Applegate talked about living with multiple sclerosis in an interview with Vanity Fair, saying she may give up acting on camera due to the challenges of the disease.
Applegate, who first revealed her diagnosis in 2021, said with M... |
| Feb 11, 2023 | Calif. mother who was kidnapped and forced to rob a bank falsely painted as a criminal in court: "100% felt like I was on trial" | The only monsters that had ever scared Michelle Renee's 7-year-old daughter Breea were make-believe. But on Nov. 20, 2000, just a day before three masked men broke in …
Michelle Renee: She calls me. 'Mom, there's somebody outside the window... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | As links to MS deepen, researchers accelerate efforts to develop an Epstein-Barr vaccine | Maybe you’ve never heard of the Epstein-Barr virus. But it knows all about you.
Chances are, it’s living inside you right now. About 95% of American adults are infected sometime in their lives. And once infected, the virus stays ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Bionic Clothing Startup CIONIC Secures $12.5 Million Funding To Augment Mobility | The Cionic Neural Sleeve with Stimulation electrodesCIONIC |
| May 5, 2022 | MedRhythms partners with Biogen to develop, commercialize mobility PDT | Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Mono Infection in Teenage Years Correlated with MS Diagnosis After 20 | Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis Could be Related to 'Kissing Disease' | Urian B., Tech Times 28 October 2021, 03:10 am
(Photo : Image from Unsplash Website) Mono Infection in Teenage Years Correlated with MS Diagnosis After 20 | Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis Could be Related to 'Kissing Disease'
Mono infection i... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | I’ve had MS for 13 years – here’s what I’d tell a newly diagnosed person like Christina Applegate about what comes next | Having a diagnosis for my many inexplicable symptoms made things a bit less scary.
I’ve spent years dodging well-intentioned but unsolicited advice on how to cure my MS.
Here’s the advice I’d like to share with newly diagnosed people like C... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Abata hopes to find ‘perfect fit’ with MS cell therapy after $95M series A
Fierce Pharma Webinar | EMBARGOED until Wednesday, June 23 at 7 a.m. ET
Third Rock is joined by ElevateBio, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Invus, Samsara BioCapital and the JDRF T1D Fund in the financing.
Tregs are the “ideal therapy for autoimmune disease” because ... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Abata hopes to find ‘perfect fit’ with MS cell therapy after $95M series A | After three and a half years of incubation at Third Rock Ventures, Abata Therapeutics is ready to unveil itself with $95 million in series A funds to bring cell therapies into the clinic for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
First up, a... |
| May 12, 2021 | TV And Films Hold A Unique Power To Shine A Light On Invisible Disabilities | Depiction of woman living with chronic painVersus Arthritis |
| Mar 26, 2021 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Johnson & Johnson : Janssen Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for PONVORY™ (ponesimod) for the Treatment of Adults With Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis With Active Disease Defined by Clinical or Imaging Features | BEERSE, BELGIUM, MARCH 26, 2021 - The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion r... |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Janssen Announces U.S. FDA Approval of PONVORY™ (ponesimod), an Oral Treatment for Adults with Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Proven Superior to Aubagio® (teriflunomide) in Reducing Annual Relapses and Brain Lesions | |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Lyfebulb and Bristol Myers Squibb Announce the Winner of the 2021 Innovation Challenge in Multiple Sclerosis | |
| Feb 16, 2021 | What To Look For In A Disability Organization | Getty Imagesgetty |
| Dec 29, 2020 | Treating Disease With Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality | Eran Orr is the Founder of XRHealth, the leader in extended reality and therapeutic applications |
| Mar 20, 2020 | A chronic illness conundrum: Should I tell my employer about my MS? | As I prepared to tell my employer that I have relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, I worried about what to expect.
Maybe I’d get a shocked look from the administrator who oversees the department where I teach part-time. Or maybe I’d be q... |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Biogen will offer discounts to a health plan if patients say its multiple sclerosis drugs don’t work | In a twist on value-based contracting, a drug maker has agreed to offer a larger discount that a commercial health plan will receive for medicines – but only based on outcomes that patients report.
In this instance, the UPMC Health Plan wil... |
| Jul 12, 2018 | Octave Bioscience Grabs $14M for Care Management Platform Focused on Neurodegenerative Diseases | Octave Bioscience lands $14M to bring expertise in chronic neurodegenerative markets and molecular Insights for improved care.
Octave Bioscience, a Menlo Park, CA-based developer of a fully integrated care management platform delivering pow... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | BBQ & Baked Potato Fundraiser | basin dickson bbq logo
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Basin Dickson BBQ has scheduled a barbecue and baked potato fundraiser, to help raise the monies necessary to pay for the research which will end Multiple Sclerosis, from 10 a.m. to... |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Gut germs play role in multiple sclerosis, studies show. Are probiotics for MS next? | Two teams of scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that intestinal bacteria play a role in multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the myelin coating on neurons, causing tremors, fatigue... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Daily visits to pool help woman stave off impacts of MS | DENNIS ODA / [email protected]
“I have so much freedom in the water
even if my legs don’t do quite what I want them to do when I’m swimming
” says Joy Loudermelt. “I can still move.”
Every weekday morning, Joy Loudermelt finds her ind... |
| May 5, 2015 | The Non-Negotiable Cost of Drugs | Related Read: The Cost of Drug Safety
It’s an amazingly well executed business strategy based on the monolithic control the pharmaceutical industry has on the health system.
Pharma will argue that even though list prices have risen, the dru... |
| Aug 28, 2014 | Kurbi provides support network to people with chronic conditions | Wes Garnett describes himself as an F-student and college dropout.
The lifelong Wilmington resident said he knew he had to create a life for himself. And with his drive, creativity and design knowledge, he did just that.
Years ago, Garnett,... |
| Jan 12, 2014 | Doctors, researchers and investigators get out of the lab,hospital and talk to customers: Lessons learned in diagnostics | This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked t... |
| Jan 22, 2013 | Molecular diagnostic firm wants to catch multiple sclerosis sooner and with greater accuracy | President and CEO Larry Tiffany hopes that the test being studied in the validation trial currently will one day become the accepted method for diagnosing the disease because it will prove far superior to current standards of diagnosis, whi... |
| Dec 18, 2012 | New molecular test in clinical trials could help physicians identify multiple sclerosis earlier | Multiple sclerosis is characterized by scarring of the myelin sheath in nerve cells that disrupts the transmission of messages from the brain and causes inflammation. Because MS signs and symptoms are also characteristic of other nervous sy... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Healthcare Field of Dreams In Idaho: Health System Opens Innovation Center | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 9, 2010 | Michigan’s Adeona Pharmaceuticals hires second CEO in less than a year | Outgoing CEO Max Lyon had been hired by the company in June. He’ll give up his seat on the company’s board. Steve Kanzer will step down from his post as chair, but remain on the board, according to the statement. Kanzer founded the company ... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | National MS Society Raises More Than $787,500 Through Walk MS | National MS Society Raises More Than $787,500 Through Walk MS
06-24-2008 12:58 PM CET | Associations & Organizations
Press release from: National MS Society / PR Agency: Articulon
Funds Support MS Programs in the Triangle and Eastern No... |
| Could Bad Sleep in Teen Years Raise Risks for MS? | WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who regularly fail to get a good night’s sleep may face a higher risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults, new research suggests.
“We found that sleeping too little or experien... |
| The Non-Negotiable Cost of Drugs | In the past several months the “war on drugs” has intensified. But the war is no longer defined as an offensive against illegal narcotics, but one against pharmaceutical companies and the increasing costs of specialty drugs. With the donkey... |
| New molecular test in clinical trials could help physicians identify multiple sclerosis earlier | About 400,000 Americans have multiple sclerosis, a chronic central nervous system disease that can cause blurred vision, poor coordination, slurred speech, numbness and paralysis, among other things.
Despite the serious symptoms, diagnosis ... |
| A future mono vaccine may have a shot at defeating multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests | Particles of the mononucleosis virus (dark circles) inside a cell. CDC
A study provides the strongest evidence to date suggesting the Epstein-Barr virus may lead to multiple sclerosis. Scientists disagree about whether EBV definitively caus... |
| Molecular diagnostic firm wants to catch multiple sclerosis sooner and with greater accuracy | Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating and unpredictable disease that often is difficult to diagnose.
Gaithersburg, Maryland-based molecular diagnostic startup DioGenix wants to change all that. The company is conducting a multicenter validat... |
| A 3-step approach to equitable care in immunology | Over the past two decades, scientific innovation has translated cutting-edge science into real progress for people living with immune-mediated diseases, such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis.[1] How... |
| Michigan’s Adeona Pharmaceuticals hires second CEO in less than a year | ANN ARBOR, Michigan — For the second time in less than a year, Adeona Pharmaceuticals has hired a new chief executive.
Dr. James Kuo, who’s served on the company’s board since 2007, takes over as the company’s CEO, president and chairman of... |
| Doctors, researchers and investigators get out of the lab,hospital and talk to customers: Lessons learned in diagnostics | This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked t... |
