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MS MIRACLE MEY LET TERI GARR WALK AGAIN!

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ABREAKTHRO­UGH stem cell treatment that stops multiple sclerosis dead in its tracks — after just a single treatment — could be the miracle cure that has

Tootsie actress Teri Garr walking and dancing again after being crippled by the cruel disease for more than

20 years.

The 74-year-old Young Frankenste­in star, who was seen in a wheelchair pushed by an assistant at

Target in L.A. on Jan. 22, suffers from the immune system disease that ravages the nervous system, robbing millions of speech, vision and balance while causing severe fatigue.

“Teri can’t do much at all without the assistance of her caretaker,” says a source. “Most of the time she can’t muster enough strength to walk, and when she can, it’s only for short distances.”

But the new therapy — autologous hematopoie­tic stem cell transplant­ation or HSCT — stops MS from progressin­g by rebuilding the immune system.

Researcher Dr. Richard K. Burt at Northweste­rn University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago says “only a minority of patients receiving HSCT relapse by the five-year mark. The vast majority don’t.”

And better still, only one treatment is required. “One time and you’re done, you’re off drugs,” Dr. Burt says.

Teri was at the peak of her career in 1983 when she began falling for no apparent reason. Finally in 1999, she received the devastatin­g MS diagnosis.

“But she’s always been positive that someday someone would find a cure,” says the source.

HSCT also holds hope for other celebritie­s with MS like Selma Blair, Jack Osbourne and Montel Williams. Still, many experts are skeptical.

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The MS-ravaged star is confine to a wheelchair

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