Archive for October, 2009

Currently, 5 – 8% of the U.S. population is afflicted with an autoimmune disease. Many of these are chronic and require life-long care. Moreover, different autoimmune diseases aggregate within a single family, suggesting they are caused by disruptions in common biological pathways…

Title: Flu (Influenza)
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 10/29/2009

The National MS Society has just committed $9.2 million to launch 26 new MS research projects as part of its comprehensive research program and commitment to move research forward. This investment comes despite a challenging economic environ¬ment, and is the latest in the Society’s relentless research effort to stop MS, restore function, and end this disease forever…

Today the EMEA, the European equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, released a statement indicating that one of its advisory committees was launching a review of the risks and benefits of Tysabri® (natalizumab, Biogen Idec and Elan Pharmaceuticals) in light of 23 confirmed cases of PML that it says have occurred since the drug has been on the market…

A Mediterranean diet may lower your risk of depression.

Neurologists at the University at Buffalo are beginning a research study that could overturn the prevailing wisdom on the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers will test the possibility that the symptoms of MS result from narrowing of the primary veins outside the skull, a condition called “chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency,” or CCSVI. (For more details on the study, go to http://www.

Title: Swine Flu Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Vaccination
Category: Doctor’s Views
Created: 10/23/2009 11:51:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/23/2009 11:51:45 AM

Title: Swine Flu
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 4/21/2009
Last Editorial Review: 10/22/2009

The lives of 100,000 Multiple Sclerosis sufferers in the UK could be greatly improved while saving the NHS £300 million a year. The claim comes from the LDN Research Trust ahead of the first International LDN Awareness Week which begins this monday.

Treating depression may reduce heart problems.