…Parkinson’s disease CIS/Multiple sclerosis Epilepsy Restless legs syndrome Comment by Dr. Daniel Selchen, Toronto, Canada Parkinson’s disease: Subthalamic deep-brain stimulation (DBS) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and is associated with a low rate of short-term mortality. Surgical complications, such as hemorrhage, hardware-related adverse events and inability to complete the procedure, occur in about 5% o…

…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. Subscribe to read more It takes 30 seconds or login using your email…

…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. Subscribe to read more It takes 30 seconds or login using your…