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2001

• Demyelination and axonal damage in a non-human primate model of ms "... suggests that early axonal damage may be, at least in part, a reversible process."
• First Study to Show MS Drug Reduces MRI and Clinical Parameters in Correlated Manner
• Personality Disorder in Multiple Sclerosis Correlates With Cognitive Impairment.
• New Study with Biogen's AVONEX(R) (Interferon Beta-1a) in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Achieves Primary Endpoint
• Neuropsychological effects of interferon beta-1a in relapsing multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group.
• Vitamin D: a natural inhibitor of multiple sclerosis.
• Seasonal patterns in optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysis.

2000

• ECTRIMS 2000
• Breaking news by EPVA
• FDA Approves Novantrone to Treat Progression in MS
• Researchers Identify Cognitive Fatigue in People with MS
• Cost and health related quality of life consequences of ms, Mult Scler 2000 Apr;6(2):91-8.
• Changes in Activated T Cells in the Blood Correlate With Disease Activity in Multiple Sclerosis Arch Neurol. 2000;57:1183-1189.
• Current Opinion in Neurology
• DocGuide select Neurology/multiple sclerosis channel.

1999

• MS pages by James S. Huggins. (new, good) 
• Novantrone fact sheet by Immunex 
• Axonal loss in ms by Curr Opin Neurol 1999 Jun;12(3):295-302 
• Benign ms? 
• MRI results of the PRISMS trial 
• Symptom Management: Focus On Fatigue In Multiple Sclerosis 
• The Department of Neurology at the University of Chicago Medical Center's web site devoted to MS and other neurological disease. 
• A revolutionary new wheelchair, Indetech 
• Recent important news 
• Cladribine for rr ms 
• Future computer user interface?: A device that reads brain waves through the skull has enabled paralyzed people to write sentences on a computer screen. 
• antiganglioside antibodies in pp and sp ms 
• gabapentin query 
• Mediconsult.com: Multiple Sclerosis Medical Information 
• Gabapentin - RxList Monographs 

1998

• PRISMS. Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study of interferon beta-1a in relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis. PRISMS (Prevention of Relapses and Disability by Interferon beta-1a Subcutaneously in Multiple Sclerosis) Study Group. Lancet. 1998 Nov 7;352(9139):1498-504. Full text, requires Acrobat Reader. 
• betaferon for cpms. Placebo-controlled multicentre randomised trial of interferon beta-1b in treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. European Study Group on interferon beta-1b in secondary progressive MS. Lancet. 1998 Nov 7;352(9139):1491-7. 
• ANA 1998 Meeting at Montreal by IMSSF. 
• Mitoxantrone may help spMS 
• High dose oral methylprednisolone for attacks 
• NMSS web site totally rewritten. 
• Ask MD's about MS sponsored by Berlex. 
• Incidence and significance of NAB to ifn-beta-1a 
• BMJ: Interferon beta produces only small benefits in ms 
• RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS by Dr Weinreb 
• Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work by Barry L. Beyerstein, Ph.D. 
• NARCOMS by Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Committees 
• Gene therapy for EAE 
• Stress and MS 
• Mateo 2/98 
• EPVA including MS Quarterly Report 
• Multiple sclerosis - New leads into its cause and treatment by Mayo. Mayo study may explain nerve damage in MS 
• Clinical Drug Trials 
• MS Gateway by Schering. (new) 
• Beta-interferon-1b may slow secondary-progressive MS 
• NEW STUDY FINDS DAMAGE TO NERVE FIBERS IN MS by NMSS 
• Axonal Transection in the Lesions of Multiple Sclerosis ( NEJM 1998; 338: 5). Editorial: Demyelinating Diseases -- New Pathological Insights, New Therapeutic Targets 
• MS severs nerve cell fibers - study in NEJM 
• San Mateo news 1/98 
• Summary of 1997 Research Progress, by NMSS. 
• MS-Net by Serono. 
• WoMS Professional: WCN - POST-CONGRESS SYMPOSIUM 

1997

• ICAAC: HHV Implicated as Cause of MS. See also Acyclovir treatment of rr MS. 
• THE MYELIN PROJECT: Latest Report - Nov '97. 
• San Mateo news 11/97 
• Writing Accessible HTML Documents 
• Herpes viruses and ms from IMSSF. Suspicion Mounts on Herpes Virus in MS from NMSS. 
• Disappointing Results from Five Drug Trials 
• Rebif for rr ms, positive results 
• MSonly by Merle Spector and Rick Korejwo. 
• QuackWatch Home Page 
• vanha-ms32 
• MS Medical Glossary 
• flu vaccine is safe for rrMS 
• WoMS - MS Management May 1997 
• Symptom Management in 1997, by Schapiro 
• Amalgam Restorations and Multiple Sclerosis 
• IBC's International Conference on Autoimmune Diseases: Exploiting Mechanisms for Drug Development and Diagnosis 
• THE MYELIN PROJECT Home Page, Latest Report - May '97. 
• Diet and MS, Medline abstracts collected by Paivikki Parpola. 
• vanha-ms29, vanha-ms30, vanha-ms31. 
• Understanding Multiple Sclerosis by Charles S. Yanofsky, M.D. 
• New Clues to Cause of MS Progression? and Drugs Under Testing for Progressive MS by NMSS. (new) 
• The MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Clinical Research Group 
• NMSS: Summary of 1996 research 
• THE MYELIN PROJECT Home Page, Latest Report - December '96. 
• Multiple Sclerosis Significant Others (new) 
• Laurel Highlands Multiple Sclerosis Support Group (new) 
• vanha-ms28. Cladribine, from Betaseron to Avonex, etc.