DNA Vaccine May Treat Multiple Sclerosis

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @05:24PM from the good-for-what-ails-you dept.

GSASoftware writes "Multiple sclerosis is a serious, as-yet incurable neurological disease which causes blindness, paralysis and other serious symptoms. In a new development, a neuroimmunology researcher in Montreal has developed a therapeutic DNA vaccine. The cause of the disease is not fully understood, but it appears to be auto-immune. If a DNA vaccine can be an effective therapy for this auto-immune disease, is it possible that DNA vaccines could treat other auto-immune diseases like Crohn's, eczema, and others?"

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Re:Always a possibility by dberstein · 2007-08-14 18:14 · Score: 5, Informative

I suffer from MS; the last I heard of a vaccine was last year: they shut the study after a couple of patients died.

This is are very interesting and promising news for me. Perhaps in a couple of years I won't need my daily anti-fatigue pills, weekly interferon beta 1a shots, and those occasional hospital corticoid shock treatments. Probably I'll never recover for the disabilities I've already got, but at least I won't develop any further because of MS!