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expert reaction to european court of justice ruling on national courts deciding that vaccines may cause adverse reactions, even in the absence of scientific evidence

The European Court of Justice has ruled that judges are able to consider that vaccination may lead to the development of an illness, in the absence of scientific evidence. This ruling was made in relation to a case in France of a man claiming that a hepatitis B vaccination he received led to the development of multiple sclerosis. read more

expert reaction to study investigating the role of environmental factors and ethnicity in the prevalence of multiple sclerosis

A study looking at the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in different ethnic groups has been published in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal. The authors report higher prevalence in the white population compared to the black and South Asian populations of the same area of east London, which was in turn higher than the prevalence of MS in Africa and South Asia. read more

expert reaction to new study on vitamin D deficiency and MS

A possible link between vitamin D levels and risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been explored in a paper published in the journal PLOS Medicine, in which the authors report that gene variants which were associated with lower levels of vitamin D were associated with an increased risk for MS. read more

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