All posts tagged 'multiple sclerosis'

Ex-Mouseketeer Annette Funicello Dies Of Multiple Sclerosis

Posted on April 8th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Multiple sclerosis, another brain and nerve disease without a cure, has claimed the life of someone who was once America’s sweetheart. Singer-actress Annette Funicello succumbed to complications of MS on Monday, at age 70, in California. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/movies/annette-funicello-mouseketeer-dies-at-70.html?hp&_r=1& According to People magazine, Funicello had been in a coma and on life..
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MS-Related Cognitive Problems Signal Extensive Brain Damage

Posted on March 18th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have issues with memory, attention, and concentration have signs of extensive brain damage, according to a recent study. The research, published this month in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) , found that those with..
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TBI Sets Off Response Similar to MS In Brain

Posted on March 10th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

A new study suggests an intriguing new take on concussions: That the brain damage found in professional football players may be caused by an out-of-control immune response, similar to what multiple sclerosis patients experience. http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3767 Research by the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and the Cleveland Clinic, published in..
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Rutgers Brain Health Institute Expands Research To Multiple Sclerosis

Posted on September 21st, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The Rutgers University Brain Health Institute (BHI) is expanding its purview to include research on multiple sclerosis, by collaborating with an MS researcher from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers said in a press release. http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/special-content/fall-2012/brain-health-institu-20120906/?print Cheryl Dreyfus, professor and chair of the Department of..
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New Drug May Target Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS And TBI

Posted on July 25th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

There is so much research being done on potential drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease that I can’t even keep track of it all, but my alma mater Northwestern University is doing what could be breakthrough. Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine is doing trials of a potential new class of drugs..
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NM woman faces eviction over medical marijuana use

Posted on October 24th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 10/23/2008 1:26 PM SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) _ A woman was told to move out of her apartment when the landlord discovered she has marijuana for medical use. Bobbie Wooten, 47, uses a wheelchair because she was paralyzed from the waist down in a car crash several years ago..
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