Archive for October, 2009

Title: Mind/Body Workout Fights Chemo Fatigue
Category: Health News
Created: 10/14/2009 10:56:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/14/2009 10:56:24 AM

Title: Swine Flu
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 4/21/2009
Last Editorial Review: 10/14/2009

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs (PCNSD) Advisory Committee voted 12 to 1 that clinical data on Fampridine-SR 10 mg twice daily demonstrated substantial evidence of effectiveness as a treatment to improve walking in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and voted 10 to 2 (1 abstention) that it is clinically meaningful and can be safe for use.

While gripping, lifting or manipulating an object such as drinking from a cup or placing a book on a shelf is usually easy for most, it can be challenging for those with neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s, or for people who had a stroke. For them, the tight gripping can cause fatigue, making everyday tasks difficult.

On Saturday, October 17, leading MS researchers from around the country will meet at the Hyatt Regency, Boston to evaluate the feasibility of conducting what would be the largest clinical study ever undertaken to explore the role that Vitamin D may play in Multiple Sclerosis. The meeting will be led by Dr.

CQ Politics reports that Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, is one of several women lawmakers who is using her own history with multiple sclerosis to lobby for changes in the health care system: “As the health care debate rages on, [Kilroy] has decided to use her personal story to help fellow lawmakers understand how important it is to make health care available for all Americans.

Researchers the UK found that learning to juggle boosts brain connections by making structural changes in the white matter of the brain. They hope the study will help develop new treatments for diseases such as multiple sclerosis where central nervous system pathways have become degraded.

Title: Cancer Signs in Teens Often Overlooked
Category: Health News
Created: 10/9/2009 10:48:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/9/2009 10:48:10 AM

Title: clonidine, Catapres, Catapres-TTS
Category: Medications
Created: 5/11/1998
Last Editorial Review: 10/8/2009

Talk to your health care provider if you have depression and intend to become pregnant.