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New standard for vitamin D testing to ensure accurate test results

At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tiny roundworm points to big promise

Two related studies from Northwestern University offer new strategies for tackling the challenges of preventing and treating diseases of protein folding, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, amyotrophic ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Advance toward a breath test to diagnose multiple sclerosis

Scientists are reporting the development and successful tests in humans of a sensor array that can diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) from exhaled breath, an advance that they describe as a landmark in the long ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Glucosamine-like supplement suppresses multiple sclerosis attacks

A glucosamine-like dietary supplement suppresses the damaging autoimmune response seen in multiple sclerosis, according to a UC Irvine study.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New nanoscale imaging may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis

Laboratory studies by chemical engineers at UC Santa Barbara may lead to new experimental methods for early detection and diagnosis -- and to possible treatments -- for pathological tissues that are precursors ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physical disabilities add challenge to pregnancy

(AP) -- Her first pregnancy brought Dianna Fiore Radoslovich a break from the weakness and pain of her multiple sclerosis.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social media can alter research priorities, study says

Widespread demands in Canada for clinical trials for a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis show the growing power of the Internet and social media to influence research priorities, according to a paper published ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop compound that effectively halts progression of multiple sclerosis

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed the first of a new class of highly selective compounds that effectively suppresses the severity of multiple sclerosis in animal models. The ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Northwestern Medicine multiple sclerosis program earns national designation

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable, often debilitating autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that affects more than 400,000 Americans. Patients with MS require specialized care that addresses the many ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Marijuana use may hurt intellectual skills in MS patients

Any possible pain relief that marijuana has for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be outweighed by the drug's apparent negative effect on thinking skills, according to research published in the March 29, 2011, print ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 8

Interventional radiologists advance MS research: Vein-opening treatment safe

Understanding that angioplasty -- a medical treatment used by interventional radiologists to widen the veins in the neck and chest to improve blood flow -- is safe may encourage additional studies for its use as a treatment ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Repeated stress produces long-lasting resistance to stroke damage in the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innate protective response that makes the brain resistant to injury from stroke can be made to last for months longer than previously documented, researchers at Washington University School ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stem cells may show promise for people with rapidly progressing MS

A long term study reports about the effectiveness of replacing bone marrow, purposely destroyed by chemotherapy, with autologous (self) stem cell rescue for people with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). The study ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple sclerosis: Risk factors in children

Canadians have one of the highest rates of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in the world with approximately 1,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Primarily striking in adulthood, physicians and researchers with the Canadian Pediatric ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research may lead to therapy that delays onset, reduces severity of MS symptoms

People suffering from multiple sclerosis may benefit if patent-pending research conducted at Purdue University shows that a decades-old drug approved by the FDA to treat hypertension also can delay the onset ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0