Multiple Sclerosis

Why should primary care physicians consider the concierge model of medicine? The question should really be rephrased: Why shouldn't they?

A novel therapeutic approach to multiple sclerosis (MS) patients may be effective in reducing brain inflammation.

Serum antibody repertoires may serve as biomarkers for the pathology and progression of multiple sclerosis

Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for her role as Tony Soprano’s daughter Meadow on “The Sopranos†from 1999 to 2007, revealed she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 20-years-old and has been living with the condition for nearly 15 years.

Depression and emotional symptoms can accompany multiple sclerosis. Researchers offer guidelines on optimum treatment.

Patients with multiple sclerosis who lose brain volume are entering a phase of greater disability and more severe disease, a study found.

Austrian researchers proved that iron builds up in the brain in patients with multiple sclerosis, but the significance of the change is unclear.

Damage to the brain’s white matter precipitates eventual damage to its grey matter in early cases of Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PPMS), according to a recent study by British scientists.

Research shows taking estrogen in combination with their traditional treatment helped female patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) avoid relapses.

Treating acquired hemophilia A (AHA) with anti CD20 monoclonal antibody Rituximab is increasingly popular, according to a case study published in the Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases.

Attaining a high level of education could lower a person's risk for multiple sclerosis (MS), a Norwegian study reported.

Positive thinking, including “concentrating on [a] hedonistic future†are signs a patient with remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis (RRMS) has accepted his or her illness, a Polish study found. Acceptance is a treatment goal because it is associated with better compliance as well as a heightened sense of well-being, researchers said.

Co-morbidities and previous treatment did not adversely affect the efficacy of fingolimod (Gilenya/Novartis) in reducing relapses in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, researchers found.

Research shows potential for a new treatment for immune related disorders associated with multiple sclerosis

The severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity can be moderated by the innate immune system, according to a study published in Nature Immunology.

Lung scarring early in systemic scleroderma can reduce lung function and leave patients gasping for breath. New treatments show promise.

Multiple sclerosis patients may actually be in better physical condition than some tests conclude.

Researchers compared the B cells of patients with multiple sclerosis and healthy patients, specifically examining granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM CSF), in order to determine their role in interactions between other immune cells within MS.

Although multiple sclerosis is an incurable disease, progress in pathology and treatment over the past year have helped to one day make a cure a reality.

The makeup of the diets of patients with multiple sclerosis may impact the progression of the disease, especially dietary fatty acids.

Maintaining higher vitamin D levels in patients’ teenage years may push off multiple sclerosis onset into later in life.

Multiple sclerosis patients with histories of neuro-ophthalmic symptoms tend to perform poorly on neuropsychological tasks.

Study results suggest that a treatment for psoriasis and multiple sclerosis may induce a dangerous adverse effect, particularly in women. The finding is potentially important, because while treatment with fumaric acid esters has been around for more than 40 years, it is now being used more widely in the United States, Germany, and other areas.

If copper clothing is on your list of options to treat chronic pain, you might want to rethink that one.

Study finds no evidence of increased cancer risk in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with Cladribine.

In mouse models of multiple sclerosis, experimental cancer drugs have shown therapeutic promise, according to findings published in the journal Nature.

Performance in daily activities can be predicted using the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) assessment, according to a recent study.

When I first started seeing patients on my own, I would get annoyed when patients came in with printouts from WebMD, Health.com, or the dreaded Wikipedia.

Researchers investigating the question of whether or not vitamin D status could predict disease activity in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) found more questions than answers.

Patients with systemic sclerosis who take cyclophosphamide or mycophenolate mofitil experience a decrease in lung scarring.