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The spinal cord area has shown a strong link to MS disability and can help discriminate progressive and relapsing-remitting disease subtypes, which in turn could help inform individualized treatment plans.

The professor of neurology spoke about the challenges faced by MS specialists as their numbers dwindle and the number of patients surpasses 1 million in the United States.

A driver sees what appear to be squiggly lines in the right field of vision of her right eye.

The staff neurologist at the Mellen Center for MS at Cleveland Clinic discussed this challenge with misdiagnosis and how it impacts the clinicians who are treating these patients.

A pair of poster presentations regarding the use of cladribine in multiple sclerosis have shown that No Evidence of Disease Activity-3 status can be sustained up to 4 years, without any new safety signals appearing.

Data have suggested that neurologists treating MS have clearly and persistently deviated from the readily available evidence regarding DMT use, all while costs continue to rise and payers intensify efforts to control them.

A late-breaking poster has suggested that the use of disease-modifying therapy is safe in patients with MS over the age of 65, as well as that disability burden and relapse rates may be lower than believed.

The professor of medicine and community health sciences at the University of Manitoba spoke about the effects of comorbidity on diagnosis, outcomes, and treatment in multiple sclerosis.

The professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School provided some insight into her experience with treating pediatric patients with MS.

Are you up-to-date on recent guidelines for the management of agitation, anxiety, apathy, psychosis, and sleep disorders in patients with Huntington disease? Take this brief quiz to find out.

The new clinical practice guideline provides 9 recommendations, 4 of which are strongly recommended, for PAP treatment of OSA and is intended for use in conjunction with other AASM guidelines.

The pediatric critical care medicine attending physician in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia spoke about how physicians can better address brain death in pediatric patients.

Investigators concluded that the findings are suggestive of a link between faster cognitive decline, especially frontal lobe dysfunction, in patients with Parkinson who develop levodopa-induced dyskinesia.

A simple screening test may help identify those at risk.

The PDUFA date for the novel oral fumarate has been set for the fourth quarter of 2019. If approved, Biogen plans to commercialize the product under the trade name Vumerity.

The investigators wrote that these findings are suggestive of a superior effect of natalizumab and rituximab compared with fingolimod in suppressing further disease activity in patients with RRMS who switched from interferon or glatiramer acetate due to breakthrough disease.