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Doors Shut on Stem Cell Program That Treated Semla Blair

Posted on September 24, 2019September 23, 2019

Richard Burt, MD, the chief of Northwestern Medicine’s immunotherapy for autoimmune diseases division, is taking a sabbatical, and the stem cell program he has headed for many years is shutting down. The clinic treated several people with MS, including actress Selma Blair. A group of 110 MS patients were involved in Burt’s phase 3 clinical trial of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), running from Sept. 20, 2005 to July 7,…Continue Reading

Selma Blair and Her Cane Put MS in an Oscar Spotlight

Posted on March 4, 2019March 2, 2019

Over the past few months, I’ve written a couple of times about actress Selma Blair and the very public way in which she’s been handling her MS diagnosis. When Blair went public with her MS last October she did it on Instagram, writing, “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps. But we…Continue Reading

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