A new study using microparticle therapy to boost the number of ‘good’ immune cells has reversed the nerve cell damage in mice with multiple sclerosis-like symptoms and cured more than a third. The ...

MS is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks myelin, the protective covering of nerve fibres in the brain ...

A stem cell treatment commonly used for blood cancer appears effective in treating one form of MS The treatment has been available since the 1990s but questions about safety and difficulty have ...

Immediately after occupational therapy (OT), people with multiple sclerosis may show small improvements in daily functioning and mental health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), but OT may have little ...

Degeneration of myelin, an insulating sheath required for rapid communication between nerve cells, is a notable hallmark of multiple sclerosis (MS) and related neurodegenerative disorders such as ...

Researchers in Italy and the United Kingdom have devised a potential method of multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment using injectable stem cells. Though the therapy is still in very early stages of ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating autoimmune disease that destroys the protective myelin covering around nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and body, and causing patients' ...

In the brain section of an MS patient, the neurons are shown in green and the target antigen MLC1 in red. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system caused ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease with a variety of physical and psychological symptoms. It sometimes takes a progressive form, with increasing levels of disability. For others, it ...