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5 Questions: Montel Williams confronts MS head on (0 Comments)
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05/10/2012 By James S. Fell
Montel Williams is not your typical pot-smoking snowboarder.
Best known as an Emmy-winning talk show host, the former Marine and decorated naval intelligence officer was also a champion boxer, bodybuilder and power-lifter.
In 1999, Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and it hit him hard. After a downward slide to rock bottom, Williams decided to get his life back.
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U.S. may speed approval of "breakthrough" drugs (0 Comments)
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05/10/2012 Experimental drugs that show a big effect early in development for treating serious or life-threatening diseases would get a faster and cheaper path to U.S. approval, under a proposal likely to become law this year.
U.S. drug regulators would be able to label such treatments "breakthrough" therapies, and work with companies to speed up clinical trials, for example by testing the drugs for a shorter time or enrolling fewer patients.
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FDA warns MS patients about risky treatment (0 Comments)
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05/10/2012 U.S. drug regulators are warning people with multiple sclerosis that an experimental treatment that props open internal veins in the neck and chest can cause death or serious injury.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said at least two people had died from the procedure, which uses stents or balloon angioplasties to widen veins that connect the brain and spinal cord to the heart. One person was permanently paralyzed, and others had bleeding in the brain, suffered strokes, blood clots or other side effects.
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I just want to be a good dad (1 Comment)
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04/03/2012 By Sarah Foster
In the darkest days of his young son’s life, Josh Clark would sing to ease his pain.
Little Jayden could spasm and go stiff up to 30 times a day before he was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. But his 22-year-old dad would pull out his guitar and use the sound of his voice to soothe him into sleep.
Now Josh is hoping to use his skills as a musician to raise awareness of West syndrome.
And he’s made it through to the next round of a competition which could set him on the path to fame and fortune.
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Making progress and smiling all the way (0 Comments)
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04/03/2012 Last year we brought you a story about a North Bend baby who underwent surgery which removed half of his brain.
Evan's family let KCBY tag along to one of his physical therapy appointments to see his progress.
Baby Evan was only three months old when he was diagnosed with Infantile Spasms.
Evan was a prime candidate for a surgery called Hemispherectomy, which removed the left hemisphere of his brain.
Nearly a year and a half post surgery, Evan takes advantage of the South Coast ESD programs, and physical therapy in the area.
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