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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND LYME DISEASE AWARENESS by Joanne60 Posted Thu 13 May 2010 5:28am

1 Comment As May is awareness month for Lyme Disease I want to highlight the problems patients have by being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when in fact they have Lyme Disease. If patients with Neurological symptoms are actually tested for Lyme Disease their doctors are led to believe that a negative result means you can't have Lyme Disease. This is ... Read on »

Irradiated food causes demyelinating neurological disorder in cats by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 30 Mar 2009 6:25pm Scientists studying a mysterious neurological affliction in pregnant cats that have been fed irradiated food have discovered a surprising ability of the central nervous system to repair itself and restore function when placed back on a normal diet ... Read on »

Cochrane Reports: Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children (Review) by Kev Leitch Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 22 Feb 2012 1:15am The Cochrane collaboration has put out an updated report on the MMR vaccine. Online discussions (for example, here ) are (a) focused on the abstract only so far and (b) centered on two lines from the abstract: Exposure to the MMR vaccine was unlikely to be associated with autism, asthma, leukaemia, hay fever, type 1 diabetes, ... Read on »

Maybe Cats have the answer for MS repair by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Wed 15 Apr 2009 12:25am Information provided by Trevor in the Uk. Maybe Cats have the answer for MS repair Thu Apr 2, 2009 10:28 Cats' central nervous system can repair itself and restore function Scientists studying a mysterious neurological affliction in cats have discovered a surprising ability of the central nervous system to repair itself ... Read on »

Myelin Repair Foundation by imicsome Patient Expert

Posted Sun 11 Jan 2009 5:26pm Doing a bit of research this evening I found The Myelin repair Foundation. This is a foundation is dedicated to find a way to reverse the damage caused to the myelin sheaths by MS. The following information was taken directly from their web site: http://www.myelinrepair.org/index.shtml It makes for long reading but contains a lot of good informatio ... Read on »

Intraspinal implant of mesenchymal stem cells may not heal the demyelinated spinal cord by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:22pm eureka alerts Public release date: 12-Nov-2008 Tampa, Fla. (Nov. 12, 2008) – Multiple sclerosis is a disease caused by the loss of the myelinated sheath surrounding the nerve fibers of the spinal cord. Therapeutic hope for curing multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases has included the possibility that stem cell transplants c ... Read on »

Remyelination capacity of the MS brain decreases with disease chronicity by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Tue 17 Nov 2009 10:20pm Source: MSIF.org summary: MS is an inflammatory-demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. It is known that demyelinated areas can recover the myelin by an internal repair mechanism of the damaged neural tissue by a process called remyelination. However, little is known about the characteristics of this protective process. Th ... Read on »

In The War Against Diseases, Nerve Cells Need Their Armor by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:22pm ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2008) — In a new study, researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, and the Université de Montréal have discovered an essential mechanism for the maintenance of the normal structure of myelin, the protective covering that insulates and supports nerve cells (neurons). Up until now, very littl ... Read on »

INFECTION- MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, MOTOR NEURONS, PARKINSONS? by Joanne60 Posted Sat 31 Jul 2010 1:24pm Rare infections mimicking MS Vesna V. Brinar , Mario Habek Received 28 March 2010; accepted 6 April 2010. Abstract The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), despite well defined clinical criteria is not always simple. On many occasions it is difficult to differentiate MS from various non-MS idiopathic demyelinating disorders, specific a ... Read on »

Yachnis and Rivera-Zengotita team up to bring us some high-yield neuropathology by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 17 Jan 2013 5:36pm Who doesn't love the feel of a brand new textbook in your hands, and that first subtle crack of the binder as you open the cover releasing the synthetic fragrance of smooth new paper? We will get to re-live that feeling when Dr. Anthony Yachnis' Neuropathology: A Volume in the High-Yield Pathology Series is released. The book has a copyright ... Read on »