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“Everybody kept getting signals, often from human data, saying this microorganism is doing beneficial things … whether it was allergy or autoimmunity or multiple sclerosis or diabetes.”

Faustman’s colleagues in Italy, neurologists Marco Salvetti and Giovanni Ristori of Sapienza University of Rome, have been pursuing BCG as a treatment for multiple sclerosis since the late 1990s.

By this time, Faustman had met researchers from Rome who had found that BCG could reduce the likelihood that people with brain inflammation would develop multiple sclerosis — but the effect was most apparent after months to years.

She said she and her colleagues are studying B-cell and T-cell responses in vaccinated patients who have multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune neurological diseases.

One of the plaintiffs is Melissa Davenport, a woman with multiple sclerosis.

In 2000, a year after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Montel Williams ditched his wife, Grace.

She talked about her father, afflicted with multiple sclerosis, who nevertheless managed to support the family.

Dressage is a useful therapy for people with multiple sclerosis.

She is presently wheelchair-bound by multiple sclerosis but suddenly in hope of parole someday, thanks to the Supreme Court.

One of the most characteristic symptoms of old age is the hardening of the arteries—arterio-sclerosis.

This gentleman pronounced the case one of spinal (either multiple or posterior) sclerosis, and discarded the syphilitic theory.

High tension and sclerosis of the radial artery were respectively found in about one-half of the cases.

It also occurs in patients suffering from glycosuria, and is usually associated with arterio-sclerosis—local or general.

This type of sclerosis preceding death of the bone is highly characteristic of tuberculosis.