Report from the European Neurological Society (ENS) annual meeting
Barcelona, Spain, June 8-11, 2013

Multiple sclerosis
Dementia
CNS infection
Tremor
Comment by Dr. Daniel Selchen, Toronto, Canada

Multiple sclerosis: A University of British Columbia study is one of the first to report on birth outcomes in fathers with MS (Lu et al. ENS 2013). The retrospective study examined data from several provincial databases to compare babies born to men with and without MS. For the period 1996-2010, a total of 202 births to fathers with MS and 981 births to fathers without MS were identified. No significant differences were observed in gestation (39 weeks) or mean birth weight.

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Report from the European Neurological Society (ENS) annual meeting
Barcelona, Spain, June 8-11, 2013

Multiple sclerosis
Migraine
Vestibular disorders
Stroke
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Comment by Dr. Daniel Selchen, Toronto, Canada

Multiple sclerosis: An analysis of long-term data from the PRISMS study of IFNbeta-1a indicates that baseline EDSS score and a change in EDSS from baseline to month 24 of treatment strongly predict outcomes at 15-year follow-up (Kappos et al. ENS 2013). Conclusions were based on follow-up of 291 subjects of the 560 patients (52%) originally enrolled.

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