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Urinary symptoms often unaddressed in MS
Major Finding: Eighty-eight percent of patients with multiple sclerosis who responded to an online survey indicated they experience lower urinary...
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Evidence of delayed cancer detection in MS patients
Major Finding: Patients with multiple sclerosis in British Columbia had a highly significant 14% reduction in the risk of being diagnosed with...
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Transverse myelitis does not share risk factors with MS
Major finding: TM patients were less likely to have been exposed to EBV, compared with MS patients (odds ratio = 0.021; P less than .001),...
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Recommendations outline how to improve dimethyl fumarate tolerability
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Parenteral drugs for MS: What's ahead
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Peginterferon beta-1a shows promise in relapsing-remitting MS
Major Finding: Patients on investigational pegylated interferon beta-1a self-administered by subcutaneous injection once every 2 weeks had an...
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No evidence of increased Guillain-Barre syndrome after immunization
Major finding: Only 415 patients during 32,734,642 person-years of observation developed GBS, and only 25 of them did so within 6 weeks of...
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In MS, 44% of excess mortality is potentially preventable
Major Finding: Fatal sepsis, pulmonary infection, ischemic heart disease, and pulmonary aspiration occurred significantly more often in MS...
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Multiple sclerosis research in 2013: opportunities and challenges
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VITAMINS mnemonic simplifies neurologic diagnoses in lupus, Sjögren's
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Fingolimod slows MS brain atrophy within 6 months
Major finding: Fingolimod slows MS brain atrophy by 31%-36%; the benefit begins within the first 6 months of treatment.Data source: A combined...