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MS affects women far more often than men. Symptoms, diagnosis and advances in treatment.
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Multiple sclerosis is complex and unpredictable, and a new diagnosis can feel isolating. This plain-language guide explains what MS is, who gets it, what causes it, and what treatment looks like today — because understanding your condition is part of living well with it.
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Multiple Sclerosis The protective myelin covering of the nerve fibers in the central nervous system is damaged in people with multiple sclerosis.
Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be difficult to diagnose at first because symptoms can be mild and may suggest a number of conditions including stroke, emotional disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS, Lyme disease, etc.
Multiple Sclerosis The course of multiple sclerosis (MS) is unpredictable. The disease minimally affects some people while others experience a rapid progression to total disability. Most MS patients fit between these two extremes.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease that affects the central nervous system. Symptoms of multiple sclerosis may be mild, such as numbness in the limbs, or severe such as paralysis or loss of vision.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease that affects the central nervous system. Symptoms of multiple sclerosis may be mild, such as numbness in the limbs, or severe such as paralysis or loss of vision.
There are 2,500,000 people in the world with multiple sclerosis (MS) and approximately 400,000 people in the U.S. with multiple sclerosis. Two to three times as many women as men have MS.
The protective myelin covering of the nerve fibers in the central nervous system is damaged in people with multiple sclerosis.
The protective myelin covering of the nerve fibers in the central nervous system is damaged in people with multiple sclerosis.
The course of multiple sclerosis (MS) is unpredictable. The disease minimally affects some people while others experience a rapid progression to total disability. Most MS patients fit between these two extremes.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be difficult to diagnose at first because symptoms can be mild and may suggest a number of conditions including stroke, emotional disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS, Lyme disease, etc.
Magnetic Resonance (MR or MRI) is the preferred method of imaging the brain to detect the presence of plaques or scarring caused by multiple sclerosis (MS). Due to the excellent tissue contrast of MR, it is better at detecting plaques than computed tomography (CT or CAT scanning).
