Share on Pinterest Bacterial imbalance may tell an important story about MS symptom severity, a study in mice suggests. Image credit: Vladimir Godnik/Getty Images. About 2.9 million people worldwide ...

Patients often fail to address early warning signs, explains Jamie Imitola, MD, of the University of Connecticut. Fear of judgement, cultural factors, and an inability to take time off work can all ...

In MS, immune system cells mistakenly attack myelin. With stem cell treatment, doctors use chemotherapy to destroy these existing immune cells. Then, they introduce the new stem cells, which are not ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune, neurodegenerative disease that attacks the central nervous system (CNS). These attacks lead to the breakdown of myelin, the protective cover that ...

For years, researchers have been hopeful they could get under the hood of multiple sclerosis. The neurological condition shows up in over 2.5 million people around the world, but it doesn’t always ...

Black people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may face higher mortality rates and more severe symptoms than white people, yet 98% of participants in recent MS drug trials were white. This lack of ...

An article published online in May 2023 in JAMA Neurology found that multiple sclerosis (MS) is more common than once thought, not only among white Americans, but also among various racial and ethnic ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and muscular dystrophy (MD) have distinct differences. MS affects the protective covering around nerve fibers, while MD affects the muscle fibers. The causes of MS and MD are ...

Research shows changes in the gut bacteria of multiple sclerosis patients compared with healthy controls. There are also microbiota differences between multiple sclerosis activity states. Researchers ...