May 12-18 is National Women's Health Week, a time set aside to promote the importance of women's health. Coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health, the goal of the observance this year is to encourage ... Read More...
According to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, no one particular diet has been proven to significantly affect the symptoms of MS. Doctors recommend MS patients follow the same low-fat, high-fiber diet as everyone else. However, MS patients have found ... Read More...
As most of those newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) are young women of child bearing age, there is a lot of concern over how the disease affects pregnancy. In the past, the medical community was under the misconception that pregnancy made ... Read More...
Multiple Sclerosis is as mysterious as it is debilitating. While it's understood that MS is an autoimmune disease in which the myelin (protective covering) around nerve cells is damaged, researchers do not know what causes this. As a result, there ... Read More...
March is recognized as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month - part of an effort to raise awareness about the autoimmune disease affecting about 400,000 Americans and more than 2 million people worldwide. While MS is typically diagnosed between the ages ... Read More...
An MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is invaluable to a physician for diagnosing MS, but its usefulness doesn't stop there; its also now being used to monitor the disease's progression. In an interview with MedPage Today, Dr. Jerry Wolesnky of the ... Read More...
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