December 20, 2023 News by Margarida Maia, PhD Telehealth intervention seen to help MS patients lose weight in trial A six-month telehealth program designed to help participants change their dietary and lifestyle habits resulted in an increased level of physical activity and clinically relevant weight loss for most obese people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who took part, a clinical trial found. In fact, about 2 in 3 of…
March 26, 2021 Columns by John Connor The MS Astronaut Returns After a 10-day Hospital Stay So, where off Earth have I been? Nothing as adventurous as a space flight, I’m afraid, but a more prosaic litany of mishaps. First, I did crash, but that was from a vicious steroid withdrawal. My body went limp. Later, it would become even limper. A small wound on…
October 13, 2020 News by Steve Bryson, PhD Human Placental Extract Effectively Treats MS Symptoms in Mouse Study Human placental extract eased clinical symptoms, inflammation, and weight and myelin loss in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS), a study reported.Ā Its researchers proposed that placental extracts be investigated as a way of better managing MS symptoms in people.Ā …
January 9, 2020 News by Patricia Inacio, PhD Weight Loss Diets Rare Among Obese MS Patients Despite Link to Disease Progression, Study Suggests Despite the fact that being obese or overweight may worsenĀ multiple sclerosis (MS) prognosis, people with the neurodegenerative disease are not more likely to adopt weight loss diets, a small study suggests. The study, āObesity, dieting, and multiple sclerosis,ā was published in the journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related…
February 13, 2017 Columns by Debi Wilson Naturopathic Approach Has Made Gains in Quest to Lose Weight For many years I have been fighting the battle of the bulge while trying to decipher and combat many food intolerances. Every year I seem to come up short in the battle with losing weight, but I continue to try to shed the pounds. There are many challenges…
November 8, 2016 News by Patricia Silva, PhD University Researchers Develop Tool to Diagnose Serious Weight Loss in Patients with MS, Cancer Researchers at McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in Canada developed a new tool to diagnose cachexia ā also called wasting syndrome. It’s characterized byĀ weight loss,Ā muscle atrophy, fatigue, weakness, and a significantĀ loss of appetiteĀ in someone who is not trying to lose weight, mainly in cancer patients. The tool may also…