What Doctors Don't Tell YouMy sister, who lives in Holland, is a Parkinson’s patient who is treating her condition with marijuana - or derivatives of it. In the last couple of months, Dutch doctors have been allowed to prescribe marijuana-based medication for Parkinson’s,
Neurologists are playing a high risk strategy by introducing the drug interferon beta-1b into their general treatment of multiple sclerosis on the basis of just one small trial, a leading physicia ...
MS: when things don’t go better with diet drinks
A doctor in Salzburg, Austria has been treating multiple sclerosis patients including herself for more than 20 years with enzyme injections. ...
MS: A treatment too far
A drug which could cause suicidal depression has been licenced by the American Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis. ...
Berlex, which makes Betaseron (interferon beta-1b), has issued a warning regarding the drug’s adverse effects on the liver. Used to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis, the drug can cause autoimmune hepatitis, leading to kidney failure, and...
What we term "multiple sclerosis" doesn't really exist as a recognizable entity. Although the main problem is damage to the myelin sheath, symptoms vary so widely that the end result is a collect ...
Although medicine is finally beginning to acknowledge the role of what we eat in making us ill, the hidden factor in illness is how well we digest it. A few pioneers like our panellist nutritional ...
The cause of MS is still a mystery. Many viruses have been strongly suspected, particularly the measles virus (Arch Neurol, 1990; 47(7):743-6). If this proves right, it may have significant impl ...
