Jul
26
BBC NEWS | Rowling’s Harry Potter ‘regret’
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Best-selling author JK Rowling has spoken of her regret that she never told her mother about her world-famous creation, Harry Potter.
She began work on her tales of the apprentice wizard six months before her mother Anne, who had multiple sclerosis, died at the age of 45.
Rowling’s comments came in a BBC Scotland programme about the degenerative disease.
The writer expressed frustration about a lack of funding for MS research.
Recalling her mother, the Edinburgh-based author said: “I started writing Harry six months before she died. That’s obviously a real regret, because I never told her I was even writing it.
“She never knew anything about Harry Potter at all.”
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Jul
21
ACUPUNCTURE has dramatically improved the lives of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients at a treatment centre in Nailsea.
The practice is just one of a number of therapies which are used by trained staff at the MS Therapy Centre in Southfield Road to help ease the symptoms of sufferers.
Edie Houghton, aged 57, from Backwell could not walk due to stiffness in her knees, she has been fitted with a catheter due to urinary problems, she suffers from constant pain in her head, legs, back and feet, poor eyesight, fatigue and numbness, but acupuncture has helped to ease a lot of her symptoms.
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Jul
21
Can Cannabis Compounds Slow The Progression Of Multiple Sclerosis?
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ScienceDaily July 21, 2008 — The CUPID Cannabinoid Use in Progressive Inflammatory brain Disease study at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth has reached an important milestone with the news that the full cohort of 493 people with multiple sclerosis MS has been recruited to the study.
CUPID is a clinical trial which will evaluate whether tetrahydrocannabinol THC, one of many compounds found in the in the cannabis plant and the main active ingredient is able to slow the progression of MS.
This is an important study for people with MS because current treatments either target the immune system in the early stages of MS, or are aimed at easing specific symptoms such as muscle spasms or bladder problems. At present there is no treatment which slows progression of the disease.
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