News for the Multiple Sclerosis Community

July 13, 2008

Maybe I was asleep at the wheel, but I think this is the first time I've seen the drug BioMS is developing referred to by anything other than MBP8298. Apparently, it is called 'dirucotide' now.

These data suggest that civilian exposure to war stress is associated with increased risk for MS relapse. These findings provide insight to stress-related risk factors associated with relapses of MS.

It's always interesting to see how those studying stress in MS find situations that cause stress and use them to look at MS. In this case, it was the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.