{"id":86863,"date":"2019-01-20T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/alaska-woman-with-ms-says-stem-cell-treatment-has-left-her-practically-symptom-free"},"modified":"2019-01-20T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T14:22:22","slug":"alaska-woman-with-ms-says-stem-cell-treatment-has-left-her-practically-symptom-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/alaska-woman-with-ms-says-stem-cell-treatment-has-left-her-practically-symptom-free","title":{"rendered":"Alaska woman with MS says stem-cell treatment has left her \u2018practically symptom-free\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alaska-woman-with-ms-says-stem-cell-treatment-has-left-her-practically-symptom-free.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young mother from Anchorage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/alaska\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a>, who was diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/nervous-system-health\/multiple-sclerosis\" target=\"_blank\">multiple sclerosis<\/a> (MS) more than 10 years ago says an experimental stem-cell treatment has left her \u201cpractically symptom-free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Loy was 27 years old when she was first diagnosed with the disease, which typically affects the brain and spinal cord, also known as the central nervous system. MS can be debilitating and there is currently no cure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msif.org\/about-ms\/what-is-ms\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/actress-selma-blair-46-reveals-ms-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\">ACTRESS SELMA BLAIR, 46, REVEALS MS DIAGNOSIS: \u2018I AM DISABLED\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/alaska-woman-with-ms-says-stem-cell-treatment-has-left-her-practically-symptom-free\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/alaska-woman-with-ms-says-ste...mptom-free<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young mother from Anchorage, Alaska, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) more than 10 years ago says an experimental stem-cell treatment has left her \u201cpractically symptom-free.\u201d Amanda Loy was 27 years old when she was first diagnosed with the disease, which typically affects the brain and spinal cord, also known as the central [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}