POSTS TAGGED AS Multiple Sclerosis

Blood Test for MS

The gold standard for diagnosing multiple sclerosis is the CT scan in which demylenated brain neurons show up as [MORE]

Sequencing Autoimmune Diseases

Using high throughput sequencing, scientists at Queen Mary University in London have carried out the largest sequencing study of [MORE]

Telemonitoring Drug Trials

The US FDA has approved the first telemonitoring protocol for a clinical trial involving a hypertensive drug for 180 [MORE]

Energy Metabolism and Age-Related Degeneration

Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in many serious diseases from diabetes and deafness at an early age, to multiple [MORE]

Breath Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis typically is diagnosed by an expensive MRI scan or an invasive lumbar puncture.  This piece, however, reports [MORE]

Photoacoustic Imaging

Photoacoustic Imaging
Realizing that laser generated infrared light can induce vibrations in the carbon-hydrogen bonds of fatty deposits in arteries, [MORE]

Linking Gut Bacteria to Multiple Sclerosis

Gut Bacteria
Fifteen years passed between Robin Warren and Barry Marshall linking gut bacteria to peptic ulcers and the CDC’s [MORE]

Imaging Inflammation in Brain Cells

Researchers at the University Medical Center in Groningen, The Netherlands have used positron emission tomography to show inflammation in the [MORE]