Twenty had relapsing remitting MS, 15 had secondary progressiveMS, and five had primary progressiveMS. Researchers also recruited 15 healthy control patients free from ophthalmological or neurological disease as a comparison group.
But we concluded those risks versus a major story by an acclaimed journalist, even a card-carrying member of the elite Manhattan progressive club like Ms. Elliot, were worth taking.
BioMS moved to late-stage clinical trials of dirucotide in January 2005 and has done them with 611 patients with the progressive form of MS. Testing should wrap up in mid-2010.
Usually after a decade or so, half of patients with this type of MS will develop secondary progressive disease where the symptoms get gradually worse and there are no or very few periods of remission.
Ms Sturgeon described the move as "the most progressive homelessness legislation in Europe" - homeless households will no longer be subject to a test of whether or not they are in priority need.
Ms MacDonald's bill would allow people whose lives became intolerable through a progressive degenerative condition, a trauma or terminal illness to seek a doctor's help in dying.
In a rare condition called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, a virus stripped the lining from their nerves in their brain much more quickly than MS would have.