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Researchers at the University of Cambridge are excited to announce that the coronation of nearly 30 years of hard work is at hand – a new type of treatment for multiple sclerosis. The condition is currently lethal and incurable, so any breakthrough could literally be life-saving.
The prospect of having access... |
14 November 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) have recently discovered that it may be possible to use metabolic therapy to address autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis. The team managed to develop a glucosamine-like supplement which they sway shows great promise.
The dietary supplement is... |
1 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Experts with the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium announce the discovery of 29 new genetic variants that are linked to the development of an extremely severe neurological condition called multiple sclerosis (MS).The new figure doubles the known number... |
11 August 2011
05:57 GMT |
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A researcher at the University of Bergen demonstrated that the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) is not linked to the amount of stress people are subject to, as had been previously proposed by others. The investigator, who conducted his work while a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, in the... |
31 May 2011
09:50 GMT |
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A team of Canadian researchers found a new target for multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects millions of people worldwide.MS is a disease caused by damage to the protective covering wrapped around the nerves of the central nervous system (CNS), called myelin. Prior research has shown that certain white blood... |
12 January 2011
09:47 GMT |
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A new study supported by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the United Kingdom, concluded that women who have multiple sclerosis (MS), are more likely to have the gene associated with the disease compared to men suffering from it, and it is in this gene region that environm... |
6 January 2011
05:26 GMT |
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A recent study conducted by researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, revealed a new possible way of reversing the damage caused by multiple sclerosis, which consists in activating the stem cells that can repair injury in the central nervous system.This is a very important mechanism that helps the... |
6 December 2010
03:05 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in Baltimore, proved that radiation therapy ameliorates trigeminal neuralgia, the painful condition associated with multiple sclerosis.Nearly 300,000 Americans are suffering from multiple sclerosis, a progressive neurological disease that trigg... |
26 October 2010
08:33 GMT |
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A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy concluded that a flaw in one of the immune system's enzymes determines the degree of the severity of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).These new findings can explain the way that this enzyme deficiency can be diagnosed ... |
11 October 2010
06:31 GMT |
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A new black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) campaign is poisoning search results related to a new oral drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), with malicious links.A few days ago, a pharmaceutical company called Novartis announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gilenya, a pi... |
25 September 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Investigators in Sweden recently took on a theory devised by Italian colleagues, which sought to explain the causes of the brain disease known as multiple sclerosis (MS). The new paper demonstrates that neither blood flow nor the flow of spinal fluid in the human brain play any role in the onset and development of th... |
4 August 2010
11:05 GMT |
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A group of American investigators from the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) has recently developed a new approach to mitigating the devastating effects diseases like multiple sclerosis leave behind in the brain of patients. The science team says that a protein involved in building the cortex of childre... |
8 June 2010
08:42 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center have recently made important strides in the field of using stem cells as therapies for mitigating the effects of injuries on the central nervous systems. The investigators managed to discover the mecha... |
2 June 2010
07:07 GMT |
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a terrible disease that affects millions of people worldwide, and produces devastating consequences for the human body. At this point, there is little researchers can do in terms of finding a cure for this condition, and most course of treatment are aimed at relieving some of the pain assoc... |
23 March 2010
09:55 GMT |
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According to some researchers, experts looking for the origins of multiple sclerosis (MS) may have been looking in the wrong place all along. They argue that the terrible disease may be caused by blockages along blood vessels, which physically prevent blood from reaching the brain, thus producing all the effects that... |
27 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Autoimmune diseases are among the most dangerous kind in the world. They manifest themselves when the body's own immune system begins to attack the central nervous system (CNS), inflicting severe damage, and eventually leading to death. Multiple sclerosis is one good example. Although the barriers that exist bet... |
15 October 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Investigators from the Jewish General Hospital Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and the McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, may be on the verge of one of the greatest discoveries of the decade – a cure for the devastating disease multiple sclerosis (MS). The team managed to devise a method of ensu... |
12 August 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system that often leaves patients paralyzed, in a constantly deteriorating condition, is one of the conditions health care experts are fighting hardly against. Its onset and development have long since been associated with deficits in vitamin D metabolism processes, but no... |
17 June 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Multiple sclerosis, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata, is a condition of the immune system, in which the cells begin to attack the central nervous system, causing the demyelinization of neurons. It occurs mostly in people between the ages of 15 and 60, and can often result in a phy... |
30 April 2009
10:28 GMT |
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The severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) has prompted scientists to look for a cure since the disease was first identified. Thus far, they've had little success, and chances are that the next few years won't bring about significant breakthrough in this area. In the hopes of preventing this from happening, Ca... |
6 November 2008
06:37 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge made a significant discovery when they noticed that alemtuzumab, a drug created for the express purpose of fighting leukemia, in fact worked best against multiple sclerosis (MS) and relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The drug also seemed to have the power to resto... |
23 October 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Although we previously thought that prolonged exposure to direct sunlight may cause severe forms of skin cancer, apparently, we need to be in the open at least 10 to 15 minutes daily, in order for our bodies to produce a sufficient quantity of vitamin D to last us a day. According to two studies published by Harvard ... |
30 September 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease with no treatment available at this point in time although it affects some 400,000 people in the United States alone. Microsoft is part of the MS Technology Collaborative alliance, together with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceut... |
29 October 2007
08:13 GMT |
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