Pregnancy hormone may offer hope for MS patients
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Scientists intrigued by the fact  that multiple sclerosis can slip into remission when women are  pregnant said on Tuesday a pregnancy-related hormone may offer  great promise for treating the neurological disease.
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Abnormal hormone levels could play a significant role in how multiple sclerosis develops, researchers suggest.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- A British study has found a possible link between taking folic acid supplements late in pregnancy and an increased incidence of breast cancer decades later.
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A new study finds that women who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome wake up with lower levels of a hormone that helps people deal with stress.
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Two new studies are offering mixed signals about the long-term safety of repeatedly giving pregnant women steroid drugs intended to prevent complications once a premature delivery seems likely.
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A new study has found that leptin plays a critical role in womenâs reproductive and neuroendocrine health and suggests a future for the hormone in treating a number of conditions including exercise-induced bone loss, eating disorders and some cases of
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Canadian researchers have found that a hormone generated during pregnancy may be a potent tool in fighting multiple sclerosis, the crippling disease of the central nervous system, according to a new report Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Treating high-risk pregnant women with a progesterone hormone during the second and third trimester to prevent preterm birth seems to be safe for the fetus, according to a report in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Vitamin shots may help protect multiple sclerosis patients from severe long-term disability, a study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - The abnormal immune response that leads to multiple sclerosis, or MS, is stronger in African Americans than in whites with the disease, new research indicates. This may partly explain why blacks often experience greater disability.
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Scientists intrigued by the fact that multiple sclerosis can slip into remission when women are pregnant said on Tuesday a pregnancy-related hormone may offer great promise for treating the neurological disease.
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A cannabis-like chemical may be important for normal pregnancy, researchers believe.
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Higher levels of vitamin D in the blood may lower the risk of multiple sclerosis, research suggests.
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Weekly injections for pregnant women of a drug derived from the hormone progesterone could have prevented nearly 10,000 premature births in 2002, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Individuals who develop multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life do not always have worse outcomes than those who develop the disease in early adulthood, according to a report in the journal Neurology.
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Four years ago, 28-year-old multiple sclerosis patient Karen Ayres was wheelchair-bound and paralyzed. "I was trapped in a body that wouldn't do anything," she says. Now, following an experimental drug treatment, she has regained mobility and is studying for a doctoral degree.
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A European study offers more evidence that weekly injections of interferon beta reduce the risk that people with early symptoms of multiple sclerosis will progress to the full-blown disease within two years.