Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
Personalization for patients and carers
A Personal Approach – to patients and carers
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In this short video aimed at patients and carers, Dr Stu Farrimond introduces a number of professionals, patients and carers, who talk about how a more personalised approach to care can improve outcomes.
The film complements a new document ‘A Personal Approach’ which sets out the financial and clinical evidence for personalised healthcare. https://www.eoe.nhs.uk/personalisation
CANCER sufferers will be prescribed a spray containing cannabis as a new form of pain relief treatment
Cannabis to be used in hospital treatment
CANCER sufferers will be prescribed a spray containing cannabis as a new form of pain relief treatment.
Experts say the medication – derived from marijuana plants – works by numbing the muscles.
It will be given to terminally-ill hospital patients as part of a ground-breaking trial.
But Sativex does not get users high. Research nurse Sam Jole said: “Patients using the spray do not experience the euphoria associated with illegal recreational use of cannabis.
“It has passed strict tests for quality, safety and efficacy and doctors already prescribe it to other patients.”
Genetic clues to what triggers MS
By Helen Briggs Health editor, BBC News website
In MS, the immune system attacks myelin in nerve fibresAround 30 genetic risk factors for developing multiple sclerosis have been discovered by a UK-led team.
It brings to more than 50 the total number of genetic clues to the disease.
The research, published in Nature, will help identify risk factors and perhaps future treatments or even a cure, said the MS Society.
Most of the genes are linked to immunity, backing the idea that the disease is triggered when the immune system turns against itself.
