Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). People who have multiple sclerosis may lose coordination and muscle control. However, many people with multiple sclerosis are only mildly affected by the disease and continue to lead their lives much as they did before their diagnosis.

MYASTHENIA GRAVIS: When One?s Muscles Are Attacked From Within! Myasthenia gravis is an unusual disorder affecting muscle function. Normally, when a person decides to move, an impulse is sent down a nerve to the muscle. When the impulse...

FDA Panel Consider Multiple Sclerosis Drug A federal health panel Friday is scheduled to recommend whether a currently available leukemia and prostate cancer drug will become the...

FDA panel supports cancer drug for MS patients A chemotherapy drug called Novantrone should become the first government-approved treatment for advanced forms of the disabling neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS), federal advisers said Friday...

Pot may relieve multiple sclerosis symptoms Add the degenerative neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS) to the list of ailments that might be relieved by marijuana...

Special treadmill AIDS in Physical therapy An innovative physical therapy technique may allow some people to trade in their wheelchairs for walkers...

Brain shrinkage predicts progression of multiple sclerosis Over time, the brains of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients shrink, and in some patients the degree of shrinkage can predict the worsening of symptoms, researchers report...

Sleep Disorder Drug Beats Fatigue in MS Doctors said Monday a drug now used for treatment of narcolepsy -- a sleep disorder -- appears to help most patients who suffer from disabling fatigue due to multiple sclerosis (MS)...

Narcolepsy drug helps relieve fatigue of multiple sclerosis A medication approved to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy may help improve fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS)...