Until now, the fight against smoking has been underestimated in the patients’ population suffering from multiple sclerosis. However, tobacco use clearly aggravates the disease’s prognosis and leads to a more rapid onset of the progressive phase.
The results of basic and clinical multiple sclerosis research over the past ten years are gradually leading to significant changes in its treatment.
The theme of this issue of the Charcot Foundation newsletter is two different yet connected areas of concern: that of the clear preponderance of women affected with MS and that of its occurrence in young people under 18.
Since June 2015 the Fondation Charcot Stichting is placed under the Patronage of Her Majesty The Queen.
It is with the greatest sadness that the members of the Board of Directors of the Charcot Foundation announce the decease of
Dr Richard E. GONSETTE, Ph.D.
Neurosurgeon, Neurologist and Founding Chairman of the Charcot Foundation for Research on Multiple Sclerosis
on 8 November 2014.
