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In a population-based study of the elderly in central Spain, individuals with essential tremor beginning after age 65 had a two-fold increased likelihood of incident dementia when compared with controls without essential tremor.
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Whole genome scans identified two new genetic variations associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) that may provide sites of immune intervention.
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In adults presenting with an acute episode of fulminant demyelination of the central nervous system (CNS), atypical symptoms for multiple sclerosis (MS), gray matter involvement on MRI, and absence of oligoclonal bands in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can distinguish acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) from MS.
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CoQ10, ecSOD, hike! CoQ10 and CAD, MDs and DS: Are Regulations Understood?, and Fish with Sugar? O-3s and Childhood Type 1 Diabetes
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Arthritis is a very common affliction, affecting as many as 48% of Americans over the age of 65. No curative therapies are known yet and, therefore, treatment focuses on management of symptoms and reduction of disability.
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When we idealistically think of being pregnant, despite facing the hardships of labor and delivery of our new child, it is a vision of hopefulness, happiness, and expectations for a happy event. The path of the pregnant woman is, however, not so prosaic, and the reality of the stresses on her body and psyche are multifold.
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A team of epidemiologists from several institutions in the US performed a case-control study of the association between oral contraceptive use and lobular and ductal breast cancer occurring in young women (under age 44).
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Germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 associated with the Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancer syndrome have an increased lifetime risk for breast (up to 85%) and ovarian (up to 46% BRCA1, up to 27% BRCA2) cancer.
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The author reviewed a year's worth of data from a busy hospital in France where manual rotation was liberally used. The procedure, which will be described below, was used in 796 patients, in whom 85 (9.7%) failed.