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Lab Discovery Offers Promise for Treating Multiple Sclerosis

A new discovery could lead to better treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases,...
Obesity Could Worsen MS Disability

Obesity can worsen multiple sclerosis symptoms, researchers say. Their study involved 140 patients with the relapsing-remitting...
Many Misdiagnosed With MS

Almost one in five multiple sclerosis patients may be misdiagnosed with the autoimmune disease, according to...

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Common MS Treatment Can Bring Longer, Healthier Life
An older but still common multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment has an unexpected perk: It...
- Posted March 28, 2019
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Managing MS
Proper treatment can help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) contend with their disease, an...
- Posted March 22, 2019
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Hot Cocoa May Ease the Fatigue of MS
Fatigue can plague many people with multiple sclerosis (MS). But a small new study...
- Posted March 5, 2019
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Health Tip: Managing Fatigue Associated With MS
Fatigue occurs in more than 80 percent of people with MS, the National Multiple...
- Posted January 25, 2019
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Food Allergies Tied to MS Relapses
Researchers say they’ve identified a potential link between food allergies and flare-ups of multiple...
- Posted December 19, 2018
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For Many With MS, Well-Being Increases With Age
Living with a potentially disabling condition like multiple sclerosis (MS) can be difficult, but...
- Posted September 28, 2018
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Doctors Discover New Type of Multiple Sclerosis
A new subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been identified by researchers, and the...
- Posted August 23, 2018
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High-Fat Diets Could Pose Danger to Young MS Patients
These regimens raised the risk for disease relapse, study found
- Posted October 10, 2017
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Resistance Training May Slow MS, Study Says
Scans revealed less brain shrinkage in exercise group
- Posted August 4, 2017
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MS-Related Brain Changes May Affect Social Skills
Study might explain why some multiple sclerosis patients stop understanding what others are feeling
- Posted June 1, 2017
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Stem Cell Transplants May Help Some With Multiple Sclerosis
Review found younger patients fared better over 5 years, though some deaths reported
- Posted February 20, 2017
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Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.