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"},"content":{"rendered":"JAMA:<\/strong><\/em> preliminary communication<\/a>; original investigation<\/a>; editorial<\/a> Corresponding authors: <\/strong>preliminary communication – Richard Burt, Northwestern University, Chicago –\u00a0<\/a>rburt@northwestern.edu<\/a>; original investigation: Tomas Kalincik, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia – tomas.kalincik@unimelb.edu.au<\/a>; editorial: Harold Atkins, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa – hatkins@ohri.ca<\/a> JAMA: preliminary communication; original investigation; editorial Published\u00a0January 15, 2019\u00a0\u00a011:00 ET (News release from JAMA) Researchers compared the effect of\u00a0a stem cell transplant using a lower-dose, short course of\u00a0more tolerable immune-specific chemotherapy and antibodies\u00a0to suppress the\u00a0immune system versus continuing disease-modifying therapy in\u00a0110 patients with\u00a0relapsing\u2013remitting multiple sclerosis. The stem cell transplant\u00a0performed better than continued\u00a0drug therapy for patients […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-expert-comments","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MS-brain.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPublished\u00a0January 15, 2019\u00a0\u00a011:00 ET <\/strong>(News release<\/a> from JAMA)
\nResearchers compared the effect of\u00a0a stem cell transplant using a lower-dose, short course of\u00a0more tolerable immune-specific chemotherapy and antibodies\u00a0to suppress the\u00a0immune system versus continuing disease-modifying therapy in\u00a0110 patients with\u00a0relapsing\u2013remitting multiple sclerosis. The stem cell transplant\u00a0performed better than continued\u00a0drug therapy for patients with frequent relapses and moderate disability<\/p>\n
\n(NOTE: <\/strong>No Canadians on these papers, but they corroborate results published by Harold Atkins and Mark Freedman, of The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, in 2016. Atkins provides the\u00a0editorial noted above.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"