Gender and Multiple sclerosis
A key difference in the brains of male and female MS patients may explain why more women than men get the disease, a study suggests. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in the US...
View ArticleStem cell research and multiple sclerosis
Stem cells could hold the key to treating people paralysed by multiple sclerosis, landmark research has revealed. Treatment with human stem cells has allowed mice crippled by a version of MS to walk...
View ArticleAlemtuzumab and Multiple Sclerosis
A new treatment for Multiple Sclerosis not only stops the disease from advancing but may help patients recover from disability. Remarkable results for the drug alemtuzumab mean it has been approved for...
View ArticleNew hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers
Scientists say they have discovered how to ‘switch off’ autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Bristol, who describe the work as an...
View ArticleCoffee may help protect against against multiple sclerosis
Coffee could have a protective effect against multiple sclerosis (MS), new research has found. People who don’t drink the beverage are around one-and-a-half times more likely to develop MS than those...
View ArticleExisting drugs in a trial to find treatments for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Depression and heart-disease drugs are to be tested in a trial to find treatments for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) from existing medicines. There are currently no treatments in the secondary progressive...
View ArticleGut microbes may treat MS, Dementia and Parkinsons
The trillions of bacteria in our intestines affect every aspect of our health and even the way we behave, say researchers. Professor Simon Carding, who runs the gut health programme at the Institute of...
View ArticleChocolate may help with multiple sclerosis
Forty people with MS will be given hot chocolate every day over six weeks as part of the trial at Oxford Brookes University. Experts are to look at the impact of chocolate on multiple sclerosis (MS)....
View ArticleVitamin D may treat multiple sclerosis
Taking a high dose of vitamin D could be an inexpensive and easy way to treat people with multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal chord, suggests promising new...
View ArticleStem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis shows promise
A pioneering new stem cell treatment is reversing and then halting the potentially crippling effects of multiple sclerosis. Patients embarking on a ground-breaking trial of the new treatment have found...
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