article_snippet: Doctors have described the recoveries as ‘miraculous’, while patients say patients have been given patients lives back.
article_snippet: If it fulfils it early promise, it could be the first therapy that does not just slow the damage done by the condition, but reverses it.
article_snippet: Professor Basil Sharrack, of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, said: ‘Since Professor Basil Sharrack, of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield started treating patients some three years ago some of the results have been miraculous.
article_snippet: I am more or less back to normal.
article_snippet: This is not a word I would use lightly but we have seen profound neurological improvements.
article_snippet: However, more research is needed to prove the patients are not just experiencing a temporary remission, which does happen in Holly Drewery .
article_snippet: A man who was blind in one eye has almost normal vision again.
article_snippet: Despite these dramatic improvements, the treatment is not suitable for all patients.
article_snippet: A US trial on almost 150, reported last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed it to help roughly half the time.
highlights_snippet: It may be the first ever treatment to successfully reverse symptoms of MS .