Kids with MS become disabled at early age
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NEW YORK  - People diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) during childhood take longer than older MS patients to reach the stage where they become irreversibly disabled, but this point arrives at a younger age.
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Everyone has a "why" for what they do. Here is my "why" for doing TOPSoccer.  I had a friend named Jerry who used a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy. Still, he could get out of his chair and play goal keeper when we played a pick-up soccer game in our neighborhood.
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Lisa Cagle had one burning question she wanted answered at the Multiple Sclerosis Society&#39;s national conference two weeks ago in Denver.
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The parents had tried with little success to cope with their son's accelerating deterioration. Unable to concentrate, he had dropped out of college and moved back home. When he could no longer function at the job he had held briefly, his parents kept him sequestered in their house, his condition ...
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It turns out May is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month for a reason. Children born in May have a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis, according to a new study published on the online edition of the British Medical Journal.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of a childâs developmental milestones.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The release last week of statistics on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in American children -- one case in every 150 8-year-olds -- confirmed that the condition is more common now than it was just a decade ago, when estimates ranged anywhere from one in 500 youngsters to one in 166.
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NEEDHAM -- Anderson Wise is paralyzed below the waist because of spina bifida, but that does not mean that his parents, Sally and Dale, expected less of him.
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NEW YORK  - Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) is known to delay children's development of movement and coordination, but now new research indicates that it may also slow language development.
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People born in May in the northern hemisphere have a higher than average risk of developing multiple sclerosis, researchers said on Tuesday.
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They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments Â and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China.
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Children with autism have inflammation in their brains, although it is not yet clear whether the inflammation actually causes the condition, researchers said on Monday.
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There's a good chance you'll become disabled for a while. Are you protected?
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Genes newly linked to an increased risk of multiple sclerosis have bolstered understanding of the incurable nerve disorder and may lead to added treatments, researchers said.
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Family history and iron deficiency appear to play important roles in childhood restless legs syndrome, according to a new study.
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The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children shows.
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Mothers and fathers with multiple sclerosis are equally likely to pass genetic risk for it on to their children, according to a study countering a previous finding that fathers were twice as likely to do so.