Newly diagnosed "can truly be optimistic about their prospects for a life free from disability"

Years ago I was skeptical of all articles like the one I'm highlighting below. I'd see them regularly -- 'The New Drug on the Way Could Be a Game-Changer' or 'A Cure May Be In Sight,' stuff like that -- I mean, how many times can you hear them cry wolf? Particularly when you have primary progressive and there were no treatments at all. But now there is so much going on, and the post-pandemic science has moved the sticks so much. … The landscape feels much different to me now. It doesn't smell like BS anymore. (How's that for unscientific?) Even if there still isn't a treatment for me. Here's to someday. --

Dr. Stephen Hauser, who has been working on MS for decades, is hopeful that the world is on the cusp of a new era in MS. “The battle is not yet won, but all of the pieces are in place to soon reach the finish line — a cure for MS. … I think we can, in the next few years, completely suppress the disease in most people, if the proverbial tea leaves continue to point in the direction that they do today,” he said. And a cure for MS could be close behind.

And in the last decade, UCSF researchers have made incredible advances that could, one day, reverse MS symptoms or even treat the disease before it begins.

Today, clinical studies like those being conducted by the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, which Hauser directs, are investigating new ways to aggressively treat MS sooner with existing medications and new, more powerful versions. They are also concentrating on myelin repair. The Institute is applying lessons learned from MS to develop treatments for degenerative brain disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, as well as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

Excerpts from full article: "A Cure for Multiple Sclerosis? Scientists Say Within Our Lifetime."