There are 4 main types of multiple sclerosis (MS), which differ based on how the disease has progressed. The treatment options and long-term outlook can depend on your MS type. Multiple sclerosis ...

MS is a disease that can affect your brain and spinal cord, and can cause problems with vision, balance, muscle control. As you learn more about they type of MS you have, you'll have a clearer ...

As early as the 1990s, researchers proposed that a very common type of herpes virus—then known as human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6)—could be somehow involved in the development of multiple sclerosis ... but ...

The Native American variant, rs145088108, significantly increases the risk of MS in Hispanics and African Americans (OR=2.05) ...

And neuromyelitis optica is also brain and spinal cord. We used to think that NMO was like a variant of multiple sclerosis. That's before the antibody was discovered. The antibody was discovered ...

No single test can definitively diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS). Diagnosis is based on symptoms, clinical evaluation, and a series of diagnostic tests. An MRI scan is one of them. A type of ...

Using 3T MRI to analyze central vein counts and distribution in white matter lesions allows investigators to distinguish ...

A new study published in Communications Medicine details the discovery of rare gene variants that increase the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in multiple generations of Asian Indian people.