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Skin Cells Can Be Converted Into Nerve-Protecting Cells to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
Myelin is a substance that coats nerve cells in body, protecting them and helping them function. The material is degraded in certain diseases, including multiple sclerosis. Researchers have now successfully transformed skin cells into myelin-producing cells, which could one day be a new treatment for the disease. Show More Summary
‘Life With MS’ Has Moved!
You can find Trevis Gleason on his new Everyday Health Life With MS blog. (everydayhealth.com/columns/trevis-gleason-life-with-multiple-sclerosis) Same great Trevis every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but in a new format that should make it easier to get to and more stable. He’s already posted the first “new blog” - check it out now!
No Disguise for that Double Vision
The brain, even a brain with multiple sclerosis is an amazingly complex and resilient organ. We don’t see our mouth as a forkful heads from plate to gob, but the food (usually) makes it to its destination. Hear a spring Robin singing in the trees?
“And Now it’s Time to Say Goodbye…” Annette Funicello Remembered
Today, Annette Funicello succumbed to complications of multiple sclerosis after more than twenty years fighting the disease she shared with us.
Would You Consider the “Nuclear Option” as Your Multiple Sclerosis Treatment?
The very personal decision of which treatment to go on (if any) for multiple sclerosis comes down to rations; Cost-to-Benefit, Risk-to- Benefit, Quality of life-to-Benefit.
Multiple Sclerosis, You Bastard! Fuzzy Tongue Disorder
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system which randomly attacks areas of the brain and spinal cord.
New (to MS) Drug Approved for Multiple Sclerosis: The Price of Recycling
Good news for multiple sclerosis patients this week as the 10th disease modifying medication for MS (and the 3rd oral drug) was approved by the FDA.
The Creeping MS Symptoms
I knew a guy with MS whose symptoms started with a slight tingling at the end of his index finger.
Secondary (and Tertiary) Effects of Multiple Sclerosis
Living with multiple sclerosis doesn’t just mean living with MS, living with its symptoms and with the side-effects of disease modifying drugs; living with MS also means coping with the things that happen to our bodies because of MS...
More Studies Have Scientists Warning Against CCSVI as “Treatment” for Multiple Sclerosis
Most of our long-time readers will know that I base my personal decisions about treatments on science.
Nearly the End of the First Quarter, 2013: How’s Your MS Today?
Every month we let you chime in with how your symptoms, your disease progression, maybe even your new diagnosis are acting.
Controversial Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Does Not Improve Symptoms and Sometimes Causes Harm
The first properly designed clinical trials have found that a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis does not help patients, researchers have announced. Many patients have paid large sums for the therapy, which advocates say can cure the disease. Show More Summary
MS Awareness Week Wrap-up: Great Minds Gather
Summing up the past 50 years of MS history – with so many of our readers having lived a goodly portion of that half century with symptoms of (if not diagnosis with) multiple sclerosis – may be unnecessary at most but is daunting in its very mass; at least.
MS Awareness Week: “…Please Communicate With Patient”
In the eighty years that passed between Charcot’s initial clinical definition of Multiple Sclerosis and the end of the Second World War, little had advanced relative to medical progression in other conditions.
MS History: “Sclerose en Plaques”, and so it Began
The name Josephine Paget may mean nothing to you now, but the 40 year old French woman is likely the first case of multiple sclerosis to be confirmed by medical science of the day. The problem for the Mlle.
Multiple Sclerosis History Lesson Part II: The Saint and the Bastard
It is a fortunate happenstance that we live in this time and place in history with multiple sclerosis, owing not only to the state of treatment and research but also because, quite frankly, we are not thought to be witches!
MS Awareness Week: A History Lesson Part I
Today begins a week-long series dedicated to MS Awareness Week. Most of the “awareness stuff” is aimed at getting the word about multiple sclerosis out to the world.
Lost To Multiple Sclerosis: Friends
With all the really great people who have come into my life – you included – since my diagnosis with multiple sclerosis it’s easy not to focus on those who have left it because of my disease… but I have lost friends and I’m sure you have as well.
Memory Issues and Multiple Sclerosis – It’s All in Your Head
Some symptoms of multiple sclerosis can be maddening, others frustrating. But some are downright frightening.
What to do About Work and Multiple Sclerosis: New Video
“I’m been diagnosed with MS… I’ve got a job; now what?”
