As a kid in Sydney, Mohamad ­Dawoud loved playing football. An athletic boy, he started kicking the ball around when he was three years old and it became the passion of his life.

A groundbreaking Australian clinical trial has halted the progression of multiple sclerosis in early-stage patients by using chemotherapy and stem cell transplants, with some of the patients showing marked physical improvement and even abandoning their walking sticks. Published in the prestigious Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, the results of the trial offer hope to …read more