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Overactive Bladder Drug May Restore Myelin in Multiple Sclerosis

It appears that a drug currently on the market to treat overactive bladder may help restore myelin in patients with multiple sclerosis. More specifically, the drug promotes remyelination, a natural...

Personal Stories: Hannah Was Here

Now more than ever, patients young and old are giving pause before automatically taking prescription medication. The sky isn't falling, but we are big consumers. Acne medications alone treat 50 mi...

A New Multiple Sclerosis Treatment On The Horizon? Anti-Inflammatory Molecule May Halt Disease

A group of researchers from Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have developed a new potential drug-like molecule that is capable of halting inflammation in the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), ...

The Eye is Our Window to The Brain – and There’s a Lot We Can Tell From It

The human brain is the most complex arrangement of matter in the known universe. Through our five senses it “digests” vast amounts of information that allows us to see, hear, taste, touch and balan...

Stem-Cell Treatment Beats Medicine in Severe Multiple Sclerosis

(Bloomberg) -- Stem-cell transplants were more effective than the standard medicine used to treat people with severe multiple sclerosis, a trial found. The findings, published in the online issue ...

Kona IRONMAN Athlete Lyle Anderson talks about Multiple Sclerosis

Lyle Anderson shares his journey leading up to the 2013 Ironman World Championships in Kona Hawaii. Lyle is a triathlete who is Living with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). Lyle Anderson: 2013 K...

Beautiful Day

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system. Today more than 2,000,000 people around the world have MS. MS is the result of damage to myelin - a prote...

Scientists identify drug with potential to block multiple sclerosis

Reposted from an article in Irish Times Researchers in Dublin have led an international study identifying a remarkable drug that may be able to block major diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS)...

Multiple Sclerosis and Fatigue

Reposted from WebMD Medically speaking, fatigue is not the same thing as tiredness. Tiredness happens to everyone -- it is an expected feeling after certain activities or at the end of the day. Us...

Study Suggests Multiple Sclerosis and Salt Intake May be Related

Reposted from HCP Live Increased salt intake may magnify the risk of relapses in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). According to researchers Farez et al in a study published on August 28, ...