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The palliative care physician and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center provided perspective on current state of end-of-life care for neuromuscular disorders and areas to improve upon. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The chief medical officer at ML Bio Solutions spoke about the advances in neuromuscular diseases such as limb girdle muscular dystrophy at the 2023 MDA Conference. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Efgartigimod-treated patients consistently outperformed placebo regardless of concomitant medication, thymectomy status, and timing of diagnosis.

After previously showing positive effects on MG-ADL and QMG, ravulizumab continued to show improvements in ocular and respiratory muscle domains in myasthenia gravis.

The director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation Research at the FDA provided an overview of the Keynote Address he gave at the 2023 Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical and Scientific Conference. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

More than 90% of patients, ambulatory and non-ambulatory, experienced improvements in Medical Research Council score within 6 months of treatment.

Differences in baseline characteristics and eligible criteria in presymptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy led to differential results on motor and nonmotor clinical outcomes.

The director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai talked about the current treatments used in MS and the risks associated with them at 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

At the 2023 ACTRIMS forum, Omar Al-Louzi, MD, director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai, talked about investigating the relationship between viral infections and multiple sclerosis using MRIs.

The neurologist and physician scientist at Washington University in St. Louis provided perspective on the need for additional studies assessing the long-term effects of dieting strategies in multiple sclerosis. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

At the 2023 ACTRIMS, the post-doctoral associate in the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary, spoke on the impact of researching T-Bet+ memory B cells for new therapies in multiple sclerosis. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

At the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum, the post-doctoral associate in the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary talked about the main findings he observed with B cell therapies in patients with MS. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Omar Al-Louzi, MD, director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai, provided his clinical perspective on role of imaging and viral infections in patients with MS at the 2023 ACTRIMS forum.

A group of experts in the care of patients with multiple sclerosis—Marisa McGinley, DO; Farrah Mateen, MD, PhD; Laura Piccio, MD, PhD; Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD; and Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, MAS, FAAN—shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management from the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.

The clinical research director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center spoke about the barriers in accessing proven therapies for NMOSD at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Rajiv Jain, PhD, post-doctoral associate, department of clinical neurosciences, University of Calgary, talked about his presentation on T-bet+ memory B-cells in multiple sclerosis at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.

The clinical assistant professor of neurology at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, New York, talked about her presentation on Evusheld at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Taylor Gonyou, DO, a multiple sclerosis fellow at Michigan Institute for Neurologic Disorders, detailed a proteomic biomarker panel that gauges multiple sclerosis disease activity, with potential to impact clinical decision-making.

The director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center provide perspective on innovative ways to monitor progression in multiple sclerosis, and the importance of high-level care facilities. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Svetlana P. Eckert, MD, clinical assistant professor of neurology at University at Buffalo, talked about Evusheld as a preventive approach to COVID-19 infections in multiple sclerosis at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.

At the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum, the clinical research director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center talked about the implications for patients on B-cell depleting therapies infected with COVID-19. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The clinical research director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center spoke on the findings from two post-hoc analyses that were presented at the 2023 ACTRIMS Conference. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center discussed the need to further explain differences in cortical lesions and deep gray matter in patients with severely affected multiple sclerosis. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The neurologist and physician scientist at Washington University in St. Louis provided insight on the general dieting strategies patients with multiple sclerosis should take as more information becomes available. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes

As a recap from ACTRIMS 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in multiple sclerosis as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

The associate director of the Multiple Sclerosis & Neuromyelitis Optica Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital provided perspective on a study that linked NMOSD to increased unemployment and decreased income. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]

The staff neurologist from the Mellen Center for MS Treatment and Research at the Cleveland Clinic discussed how patients with multiple sclerosis are more open to using telehealth for accessing their healthcare providers at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center provided context on the CASA-MS study, and the key differences in why certain patients with multiple sclerosis experience more rapid disability progression. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]