New research shows that drug for Parkinson’s disease (benztropine) may also...
A drug that treats Parkinson’s disease might also work against multiple sclerosis, or MS. In MS patients, an aberrant immune onslaught degrades the fatty myelin sheaths that coat nerve fibers, causing...
View ArticleNew research shows that women who never sunbathe are twice as likely to die...
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, say guidelines that advise people to stay out of the sun unless wearing sunscreen may be harmful, particularly in northern countries which have long,...
View Article7 Very Bizarre (and Very Rare) Psychotic Hallucinations
brain The many documented cases of strange delusions and neurological syndromes can offer a window into how bizarre the brain can be. It may seem that hallucinations are random images that appear to...
View ArticleWheelchair-bound multiple sclerosis patients able to walk again after new...
Holly Drewry, 25, of Sheffield, was wheelchair bound after the birth of her daughter Isla, now two. A pioneering new stem cell treatment is reversing and then halting the potentially crippling effects...
View ArticleRare Form of MS May Be Caused by a Single Gene Mutation
A single genetic mutation may increase a person’s risk of developing a rare, severe form of multiple sclerosis (MS) by roughly 60 percent, according to a study published recently in the journal...
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