Conference MDAngle: CMSC 2024 Multiple Sclerosis Conference MDAngle: CMSC 2024 Multiple Sclerosis
Dr Carrie Hersh and Dr Annalisa Morgan share highlights from CMSC 2024, including anticipated presentations, quick takeaways, and insights into patient care.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery MDAngle Source Type: news
CMSC 2024: New Horizons in Multiple Sclerosis Care CMSC 2024: New Horizons in Multiple Sclerosis Care
Dr Carrie Hersh anticipates a diverse lineup at CMSC 2024, focusing on research, real-world applications, and personalized care for individuals with MS.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery MDAngle Source Type: news
Boost Testosterone Levels Naturally and Safely
Low testosterone goes far beyond a decline in your libido.
As a regular reader, you know that low T also causes decreased muscle mass and bone density, insulin resistance, visceral fat, energy loss, depression, and even those dreaded man boobs.
But new evidence reveals that decreasing testosterone levels are also causing a surge in autoimmune diseases among American males.
I’m talking about diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.1,2
Autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system creates antibodies that attack your body’s own cells and tissues. Historically, these conditions have classi...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 20, 2024 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Men's Health Source Type: news
Long Dismissed, Chronic Lyme Disease Is Finally Getting Its Moment
Sue Gray, 59, has been sick half her life. But it took two decades to confirm why.
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When Gray was 30 and living with her then-husband in the middle of the woods in upstate New York, she felt a tick on her scalp one day after taking a shower. Her former husband plucked it off with tweezers, and “that was the end of that—for that day,” Gray says.
Over the next few months, however, Gray’s health began to decline. She suffered frequent respiratory infections and developed a twitch in her eye. Then, a few weeks after the twitch began, she felt the sensat...
Source: TIME: Health - May 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Stroke, Migraine, Alzheimer's: Climate Change Will Likely Make Them Worse
THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 -- Climate change is likely to make brain conditions like stroke, migraine, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis even worse, a new review warns.
The potential effects of a changing climate is likely to... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Clinical outcome analysis of patients with multiple sclerosis - analysis from the UK Medical Cannabis Registry - Murphy M, Kaur V, Bui HL, Yang T, Erridge S, Holvey C, Coomber R, Rucker JJ, Weatherall MW, Sodergren MH.
INTRODUCTION: Whilst disease-modifying therapies are the cornerstone for treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), there is a need to develop novel therapeutics for the symptomatic sequalae of the disease. Cannabis-based medicinal products (CBMPs) have been su... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 14, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Life space assessment and falls in older adults with multiple sclerosis - Holtzer R, Motl RW, Wagshul ME, Picone MA, Hernandez ME, Izzetoglu M, Lipton ML, Foley FW.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Falls research in older adults with MS (OAMS) is scarce, and no studies have reported on the association between life-space mobility and falls in this group. Herein, we hypothesized that higher baseline life-space scores would be asso... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Suicidal ideation in people with multiple sclerosis and its association with coping self-efficacy - Mikula P, Timkova V, Vitkova M, Szilasiova J, Nagyova I.
BACKGROUND: Chronic neurological disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS), is a significant risk factor for psychological distress, which can result in suicidal behaviour. Suicidal ideation (SI) is considered a harbinger of suicide-related mortality. Howeve... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Preventing falls in multiple sclerosis: a qualitative study on user requirements for a self-management programme - Meijer U, Flink M, Tuvemo Johnson S, Kierkegaard M, Gottberg K, Ytterberg C.
PURPOSE: To explore perspectives of ambulatory and non-ambulatory people with MS (PwMS) and health care professionals (HCPs) on falls and falls management to gain a deeper understanding of how a self-management programme can be designed to fit the needs of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis: 5 Things to Know Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis: 5 Things to Know
John Kramer outlines the key aspects of making a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - May 9, 2024 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Commentary Source Type: news
Multiple Sclerosis Highlights From AAN 2024 Multiple Sclerosis Highlights From AAN 2024
Highlights in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis from AAN 2024 include pregnancy-related considerations, anti-CD20 drug-associated infection, and ocrelizumab safety in Black and Hispanic persons.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery ReCAP Source Type: news
After Landing Meadow on'The Sopranos,' Jamie-Lynn Sigler's Other StrugglesBegan
The ‘Messy’ podcast host on developing exercise bulimia, her multiple sclerosis and how James Gandolfini came to her rescue.#jamesgandolfini (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Amifampridine overdose leading to refractory status epilepticus - Gooley B, Willenbring B, Wilkinson J.
3,4-Aminopyridine or Amifampridine belongs to the aminopyridine class of drugs which is used to treat multiple sclerosis and Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS). Aminopyridine pharmaceuticals inhibit presynaptic potassium channels. This increases avai... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
ISMRM: Advanced MRI techniques shed new light on multiple sclerosis
Cornelia Laule, PhDSINGAPORE – Quantitative MRI techniques offer valuable insights into diverse pathological processes underlying multiple sclerosis (MS), with these techniques poised for clinical use, according to a leading expert.
In a May 4 presentation at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine annual meeting in Singapore, Cornelia Laule, PhD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, gave an overview of quantitative MRI findings in MS and discussed how they are enabling a more complete understanding of the disease.
“Clinical MRI scans are very sensitive to damage within the [centra...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
ISMRM: Advanced MRI techniques shed new light in multiple sclerosis
SINGAPORE – Quantitative MRI techniques offer valuable insights into diverse pathological processes underlying multiple sclerosis (MS), with these techniques poised for clinical use, according to a leading expert.In a presentation May 4 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine annual meeting in Singapore, Cornelia Laule, PhD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, gave an overview of quantitative MRI findings in MS and discussed how they are enabling a more complete understanding of the disease.“Clinical MRI scans are very sensitive to damage within the [central nervous system]; howe...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
