Stem Cell Transplant Reverses Early-stage Multiple Sclerosis
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 00:15
in Health & Medicine
Researchers appear to have reversed the neurological dysfunction of early-stage multiple sclerosis patients by transplanting their own immune stem cells into their bodies and thereby "resetting" their immune systems. This is the first time neurological disability has been reversed in MS. The patients' disease also stabilized.