After about a week, doctors speculated her condition could have been brought on by M.S. but could not treat her in Des Moines ...

An investigational drug for multiple sclerosis from Io Therapeutics has restored leg mobility and myelin nerve coatings in ...

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Numbness in your feet is a symptom of diabetic neuropathy — a common complication of type 2 diabetes. It occurs when nerves in your body become damaged by high blood sugar levels. About half of ...

Men with MS who started on high-efficacy DMTs had fewer relapses than those who started with moderate-efficacy DMTs, a U.S.

By Shabna Rahman Living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for the past seven years has knocked 42-year-old Salma down drastically, ...

The study, led by Patrizia Casaccia, founding director of the Advanced Science Research Centre at the CUNY Graduate Centers ...

Department of Clinical Neurosciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating autoimmune disorder targeting the ...

MS is an autoimmune disease where your body attacks healthy myelin cells in the spinal cord and brain. Myelin is the protective fatty layer that covers nerve cells. People with MS often develop ...

MS occurs when the body's immune system goes awry, attacking the myelin sheath that protects nerves. Over time, this can lead to a debilitating loss of movement, balance, cognitive abilities and ...

In MS, the immune system attacks the layer that surrounds and protects the nerves called the myelin sheath. "This damages and scars the sheath, and potentially the underlying nerves, meaning that ...

"It was MS," Applegate said. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune condition in which the body attacks myelin, the tissue that coats nerve fibers within the central nervous system, consisting of the ...