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    <description>Tune in for expert lectures on current hot topics in clinical care for MS. </description>
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      <title>Guideline-Driven Strategies in MS: De-escalating and Discontinuing Disease-Modifying Therapies</title>
      <description>In this episode, Jeffrey Cohen, MD, Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Director of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, discusses the first comprehensive recommendations for de-escalating and discontinuing disease-modifying therapies in select individuals living with multiple sclerosis developed by the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS).</description>
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      <title>New Guidelines for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder: Rethinking Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation</title>
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      <description>Peter Sguigna, MD, Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, discusses recent updates related to the optic nerve in the 2024 McDonald diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS) along with the importance of considering neuro-ophthalmology findings when caring for patients with MS. </description>
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      <description>In this episode, Scott D. Newsome, DO, Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, discusses how Ocrevus Zunovo can be used to treat primary progressive and relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, including how the drug is administered, research related to the efficacy of this formulation, and the impact on clinical practice and patients.</description>
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      <title>MS Masters Toolbox: Cramps, Spasms, and Spasticity</title>
      <description>In this series, Vito Arena, MD and Ilya Kister, MD from the New York University School of Medicine Comprehensive MS Care Center discuss tools for managing multiple sclerosis symptoms. These gems are guided by research and intended to improve quality of life for people with MS. Episode 4 provides tools for cramps, spasms, and spasticity. Increasing prevalence of spasticity is closely associated with increasing disease duration, progressive disease and disability in Multiple Sclerosis.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:56:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>In this series, Vito Arena, MD and Ilya Kister, MD from the New York University School of Medicine Comprehensive MS Care Center discuss tools for managing multiple sclerosis symptoms. These gems are guided by research and intended to improve quality of life for people with MS. Episode 4 provides tools for cramps, spasms, and spasticity. Increasing prevalence of spasticity is closely associated with increasing disease duration, progressive disease and disability in Multiple Sclerosis.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>Description: Dr. Anthony Feinstein of the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Ontario, Canada and author of the recently released book Mind, Mood, and Memory: The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis, shares his expert knowledge and research about cognitive dysfunction in MS and how we are learning to treat this troublesome problem. </description>
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This first episode discusses tools for managing the heat sensitivity and exercise intolerance experienced by many with MS. </description>
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This first episode discusses tools for managing the heat sensitivity and exercise intolerance experienced by many with MS. </itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:28:54 -0000</pubDate>
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