My 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. ...
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 ...
The potential link between the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis has led the French government to suspend vaccinations in schools, much to the consternation of pro vaccination groups. ...