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Today is March 4, 2007 and tomorrow starts the beginning of national MS Awareness Week.

You can read about current funded research at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's website.

As a surviving person inflicted with MS, I think it is very important not to let it beat you down. It is imperative that you look at yourself as someone surviving every day and never as a victim.

It is hard to do this, especially when so many marketed drugs for the treatment of MS are nearly lethal. I am still amazed at how so many people can be diagnosed with something terrible, only to then find out the treatment is worse than the disease. But technology and medicine as a combined force are evolving productively by the minute and I have faith that better treatments and even cures will see the light of day sooner rather than later.

Labels: multiple sclerosis

So it interests me to read the latest releases from ScienceDaily. Don't roll your eyes, I like to be informed! =o)

So when I see a new release entitled "Enabling Nerve Regeneration Means Evicting The Cleanup Crew" I am intrigued and need to sit and read and try to understand it all.

"Macrophages are the immune cells that engulf and destroy the debris of damaged tissue to enable the healing process to begin. Their presence at the scene of damage is critical, but once their task is complete, it is just as critical that macrophages exit rapidly, ending the inflammatory process and making way for regrowth. In fact, the continued presence of macrophages could damage tissue, compromising repair."

Ah yes, maybe you know why this particular scientific release interests me so much. Why? Because it very much relates to multiple sclerosis, since it has to do with the inflammation of myelin (the neural tissue that protects the nerves of the central nervous system). Being able to regulate inflammatory responses so as to aid the repair and rebuilding of immune cells, would be beneficial for not just MS patients, but also survivors of strokes, spinal cord injuries and other CNS pathologies.

Labels: neurology