Hello friends --How's things?  This Daylight Savings Time nonsense is kicking my butt - how about you?  That was useful when we were an agrarian society but - why do we need it now???  Seriously, between that and the weather change - my body is pissed off.  Hope you're not dealing with the same thing. Let's see what happening in MS world, shall we?1.  Now this is interesting: Fewer participants than expected had significant worsening of disability after starting treatment with the drug.  Hydroxychloroquine May Slow PPMS Progression, Study Shows2.  When you live with chronic pain, you can't stop the weather — but you can learn to adjust your sails.  A Flare Does Not Mean You’ve Done Something “Wrong”3.  Nerve Repair Therapy. WHAT!?!?!  A single dose of NVG-291, a potential nerve repair therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS), was safe and well-tolerated among healthy volunteers in a Phase 1 safety trial, and was found to have favorable pharmacological properties, new data show.  Nerve Repair Therapy NVG-291 Safe, Well-tolerated in Healthy People4.  Numares has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Oxford University Innovation to develop a panel of biomarkers that identify disease progression in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Specifically, the company aims to create a tool that detects early signs of conversion from relapsing remitting MS (RRMS) to secondary progressive MS (SPMS), enabling patients to receive timely treatment and improve their outcomes.  Multi-biomarker Test of SPMS Transition5.  Using robotic devices during gait training can improve walking abilities in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), particularly among those with severe disability, a review of 17 studies has found.  Robotic Devices Help Improve Walking for Those with Severe Deficits6.  A Paleolithic elimination diet (Wahls diet) or a low-saturated fat diet (Swank diet) are associated with improved cognition, among other clinical outcomes, in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), new research suggests.  Two Diets Linked to Improved Cognition and Fatigue in MS

That's all folks. Hope you learned something helpful today. I'm going to go bundle up and take a nap!!!Cheers -- Kathy#FUMS

Sometimes it helps the stress, just to say "F-U-M-S"