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University Of Maryland Study Links Vitamin B Deficiency To Risk Of Stroke In Younger Women
August 31, 1999 — In the first large population study of its kind, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that higher levels of the naturally-occurring substance called homocysteine ... > full story -
Transplant Cells Show Capacity For Mending Nervous System
July 30, 1999 — Using stem cells grown in the laboratory, scientists have successfully transplanted those cells into the nervous systems of ailing rats and arrested the course of a debilitating congenital disease. ... > full story -
Heart Valve Disease Increases Risk Of Death, Research Shows
July 19, 1999 — For decades, doctors have believed that early signs of aortic heart valve disease were harmless if the valve was functioning normally. But research by a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ... > full story -
Transplanted Neural Stem Cells Migrate Throughout The Abnormal Brain, Reduce Disease Symptoms
June 9, 1999 — For years, researchers have probed the mysteries of neural stem cells -- immature cells that can differentiate into all the cell types that make up the brain -- with the idea that they might be ... > full story -
Autoimmune Diseases Study Shows Differences Between Men And Women
March 1, 1999 — A national task force of basic researchers and clinicians spent 18 months assessing what is known about autoimmune diseases and has now proposed an aggressive research agenda aimed at understanding ... > full story -
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Study Indicates Auto-Antibodies Contribute To Destruction Of Nerve Fibers Myelin Sheath, The Hallmark Of Multiple Sclerosis
February 2, 1999 — Researchers have discovered that the bodys own antibodies, in recent years considered minor, perhaps even inconsequential, culprits in the development of multiple sclerosis, actually play a direct ... > full story -
Scientists Show For The First Time How Leprosy Bug Targets Peripheral Nerves
December 16, 1998 — A team of researchers, led by scientists from The Rockefeller University, have identified how the bacterium that causes leprosy targets the peripheral nerve, the crucial step leading to nerve damage ... > full story -
Relapses Prevented In Mouse Model Of Multiple Sclerosis: Research Aimed At Treating Relapses In Human MS
October 31, 1998 — Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have discovered that antibodies to a common inflammatory-response protein can prevent relapses in an animal model of human multiple ... > full story -
Steroids May Reverse Loss Of Substance Tied To Nervous-System Diseases
October 5, 1998 — Steroids help to reduce inflammation, but University of Illinois scientists suggest they also could be used to reverse a loss of myelin -- a major problem in multiple sclerosis and other ... > full story -
Scientists Report Cancer Fighting Drug As Possible Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis
July 7, 1998 — A drug currently undergoing phase III clinical trials for certain types of cancer may have potential benefit for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), report researchers from The Rockefeller ... > full story
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