[paul_h]

My sister in law has a stem cell transplant under this team https://sheffield.ac.uk/neuroscience-institute/research/brea... for Multiple Sclerosis. It was a small multi-country trial of about 100 people, I recall. This was nine years ago and she counts herself as cured, though to has a follow up once a year with the same team. The treatment is expensive, and though this was all UK National-Health-Service linked, the NHS is seeking cheaper MS treatments now: https://www.mssociety.org.uk/research/latest-research/latest... (Metformin, ALA, ?) There was a trial before this trial - some 20 people in Canada (?) and a couple died. In the 100 person trial they changed the selection criteria for patients, and I'd like to think nobody died cos of the treatment, but I've not heard anything to be able to add a figure. Its Mexico only now perhaps, people did self-fund to go to Moscow for the same treatment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54560236. These two ladies are not updating how it went for them, years later, but one is on Instagram living a normal life, and the other Facebook