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Chilcotin, Here's a link to other news regarding the lipoic acid study that you had inquired about, http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00010842?order=38. This study is to be completed by December 2004 although the above link states that it has been completed. Nonetheless, it will be interestin...

I wanted to mention that information on many different supplements can be found at the Health Notes website. This site cannot be accessed directly as it's offered on a subscription basis to other sites which then often provide access for free. For example, you can get there by going to the http://ww...

There are many papers on PubMed concerning lipoic acid and its antioxidant characteristics. You can search through the abstracts at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi Run a combined search query on "lipoic acid" AND "multiple sclerosis" (enter exactly as typed, quotes ...

Part of the trial info released contained this statement: "The exact relationship between MRI findings and the clinical status of patients is unknown. Changes in lesion area often do not correlate with changes in disability progression" Now this really gives me a lot of assurance that Bio...

Just curious as to why you would want to take this twice a week vs. taking Rebif 3x a week. You are getting approx 3.5x the dose with Rebif for approximately the same cost. I've been on Avonex for a little over 4 years now. Early in my experience with Avonex, I was contacted regularly via phone by ...

This is along the same lines as the MS empathy site,
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/docs/H ... 4-Pain.pdf

View page 5.

I've just finished reading this book after seeing the review in the NMSS's InsideMS. I was able to get a copy from my local library. I found the book to be well written and informative. In a highly compressed nutshell, it covers Dr. Weiner's 30 year history researching MS and treating patients from ...

This is an older paper but it may still be of interest... M. Naiki, et al. 1995. 2-Buten-4-olide (2-B4O) inhibits experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in Lewis rats. J Autoimmunity 8(5): 727-739. Abstract: Starvation is well known to induce immune suppression. Moreover, the concentration of...