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Baclofen: A Dependable Skeletal Muscle Relaxant for Treatment of MS Patients

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects approximately 250,000 to 350,000 people in the United States. This estimate suggests that approximately 200 new cases are diagnosed each week with this disease. This degenerative (marked by gradual deterioration of organs a... Read >
Author: Marco Terrell

Causes and symptoms of optical neuritis

Stretching from the back of the eye to the brain, the optic nerve acts as a bridge between these two organs. It is commonly known that the eyes are responsible for converting the entering light to electrical impulses and the brain performs the task of int... Read >
Author: homas Carter

Charot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Copyright (c) 2010 Dr. Jennifer Feeny Though it is our first instinct to think that this disease has something to do with either a woman named Marie or teeth, because of the name, this is not the case. Yes this disease has a funny name but it is not fu... Read >
Author: Dr. Jennifer Feeny

Vitamin B12 - Benefits To Aging Baby Boomers

By most statistics, maybe as many as 80% of aging baby boomers intend to work past the age of 65. It is not that most will not have the money they need to retire, most will, some more comfortably than others of course. The real question is will we be able... Read >
Author: George Hollis

Multiple Sclerosis: Could This Be The Cure?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease characterized by pain and disability. The most common symptoms of MS are vision problems, muscle weakness, numbness and loss of balance and coordination. In extreme cases, hearing loss, speech impediment, paral... Read >
Author: HWNTeam

Associating Back Pain and Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis is a progressive ailment including demyelinating and affects the motor and sensory neurons. The disease can trigger cycles of remission, which leads to the condition to deteriorate. When exacerbation starts etiology is reviewed, which i... Read >
Author: james lewis

How To Know If It Is A Multiple Sclerosis Relapse

With multiple sclerosis, relapses are probably the most frustration-filled area of the disease. Apart from the person with complaint having to endure such annoying and painful relapses, that person's family and physicians are also given a hard time. Ex... Read >
Author: Caksut

Stem Cell Therapy Reverses Multiple Sclerosis

In such a long time, it is only in this century that most of the impairments associated with the initial stages of multiple sclerosis can be reversed. This works by resetting their immune systems by making use of their very own stem cells. Still, this ... Read >
Author: Caksut

Not All High Cholesterol Foods Are Created Equal

Do you shudder at the thought of eating high cholesterol foods? The idea of those thick greasy fried foods running through your bloodstream thickening your arteries can be anything short of repulsive. The media and advertisers are all on the same bandw... Read >
Author: Dr. Stanley Miller

Trigeminal Neuralgia Surgery India – Types Of Surgery & Cost In India

Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment In India Trigeminal Neuralgia A Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), also called tic douloureux, is a condition that is characterized by intermittent, shooting pain in the face...... Causes of Trigeminal Neuralgia Pressure of a bl... Read >
Author: WeCareIndia

Multiple Sclerosis and Back Pain

Multiple Sclerosis is a progressive disease such as demyelinating and affects the motor and sensory neurons. The disease will cause cycles of remission, which causes the condition to worsen. When exacerbation starts etiology is reviewed, which includes th... Read >
Author: Richie Lindsay

What You Should Know About Adult Stem Cell

Adult stem cell research has advanced in leaps and bounds over the past decade. What was once viewed as inflexible, unable to proliferate and set in its ways has now been found to revert back to its earlier state. New evidence suggests that taking an adul... Read >
Author: MIKE SELVON

Neuropathy, why the pain, the tingling and the numbness?

Neuropathy has many symptoms. It may start with a tingling feeling and end up with numbness. It can be a pricking, or burning sensation, loss of reflexes and muscle shrinkage, abnormal sensations, or sensitivity to touch. Its worse symptom is pain, someti... Read >
Author: Chris Daino

Exercise Body and Brain to Maintain Lifelong Cognitive Health

Copyright (c) 2008 SharpBrains The American Medical News, a weekly newspaper for physicians published by the American Medical Association, just published an excellent article on the importance of Exercise - Physical and Mental: A few quotes from the... Read >
Author: Alvaro

What is Good Cholesterol and Bad Cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a component of lipid rafts, this helps to secure proteins involved in cell signaling. When sleeping at night, our brain synthesizes cholesterol to benefit our mood and increase our memory. Cholesterol supports the nervous system, in which c... Read >
Author: stbotanica

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