Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

In MS, the immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin sheath ... Learn more about occupational therapy for MS. Multiple sclerosis (MS) may affect the vagus nerve, which some researchers believe ...

Emma Phipps, 44, from Wansford near Peterborough, joined the University of Cambridge trial which hopes to repair myelin - a ...

Attacked by lymphocytes, the myelin sheaths are damaged, disrupting or blocking the transmission of information. The disease manifests as inflammatory relapses that lead to demyelination. Multiple ...

Good news for those suffering from multiple sclerosis: a new class of drugs for the treatment of the disease is in advanced ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS ... Those disruptions are due to inflammation and damage to the myelin sheath, the protective covering around nerve fibers, and they produce a wide range of symptoms.

Explore how childhood social disadvantages, like poverty and limited healthcare access, impact the severity of multiple ...

Treatments now focus on reducing attacks on myelin, but don’t address nerve-cell damage and death. But with $1 million from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), a research team co-led ...

The neurons of the brain are protected by an insulating layer called myelin. In certain diseases like multiple sclerosis, this protective layer is damaged and lost, leading to death of neurons and ...