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Community Engagement UK Pop Up Circles Tour 2023
The Community Engagement team are very excited to announce their 2023 Pop Up Circles tour.
Our top 10 lifestyle book recommendations
What's on your reading list this year? We asked our medical advisor, Dr. Jonathan White, to share his top lifestyle and wellness book recommendations to help you follow the Overcoming MS Program in 2023.
Your favourite recipes in 2022
Take a look through the most popular recipes of 2022. A huge thanks to everyone who has shared their delicious recipes with us this year! Did your favourite recipe make it on the list?
Most popular podcast episodes of 2022
2022 has been a significant year for the ‘Living Well with MS’ podcast, as we released the 100th episode and reached the milestone of over 300k downloads since the podcast started. Get inspired and listen back to the most popular podcasts this year.
Ultra Challenge Series 2023
Walk, jog or run one of the unforgettable events in the Ultra Challenge Series, whilst supporting Overcoming MS.
Celebrating the Community Engagement team's year
Community Engagement Programme Manager, Liz Waters reflects on the Community Engagement team's year.
I am Overcoming MS
Have you been helped by Overcoming MS? If so, we want to hear from you.
478 results
People with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) never treated with DMDs do best
An intriguing study from Austria has come up with an unexpected finding. The study examined 163 people with a new diagnosis of clinically isoloated syndrome (CIS) suggestive of MS attending 29 MS clinics in Austria
Is Tysabri more effective than other disease-modifying drugs?
There is considerable debate about whether Tysabri actually reduces relapse rate by more than standard DMDs.
The influence of the pharmaceutical industry in medicine
Professor Jelinek and Dr Sandra Neate publish their findings on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in medicine, in the October issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine
Further evidence that membrane saturated fats predict outcome in MS
New confirmatory evidence has been published from South African scientists that higher cell membrane concentrations of saturated fats predict worse outcomes in people with MS
High dose vitamin D cuts relapses
New strong evidence of a beneficial effect of vitamin D on MS relapses
Breastfeeding after giving birth reduces MS relapses
It has long been known that relapse rates for women with MS fall during pregnancy. Read more from a Stanford Study.
MS Australia guidelines for vitamin D in MS recommend one-off megadose
MS Australia has published guidelines for vitamin D supplementation for people with multiple sclerosis
Are antidepressants really effective? Maybe not...
Positive results of many trials on new generation antidepressants have been strongly promoted by the drug industry to convince us that these drugs are helpful in depression. Are we merely being sold a very good placebo?
Emotional expression improves autoimmune disease
This should really be under a What's Old section, but we have forgotten how important people are to their own healing.
Swank's paper looking at effect of low saturated fat diet on MS
Here is the full paper as published in the Lancet in 1990 looking at low saturated fat diets in MS patients over 34 years.