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More evidence of potential harm with vitamin supplements
A new review article has highlighted the fact that supplements (apart from vitamin D and omega 3s) are mostly unnecessary, and indeed can be harmful Read more >A note of caution when taking calcium supplements with vitamin D
A case report published in Archives of Neurology shows the potential risk associated with taking calcium supplements with vitamin D Read more >Editorial questions why we have no studies on high dose vitamin D preventing MS
A prominent Irish neurologist writing in the major international journal Multiple Sclerosis has queried why we have lots of drug company funded studies on MS drugs but none on preventing MS with high dose vitamin D. Read more >New theory: MS is a disease of fat metabolism like heart disease
A new theory has emerged that may well tie all the loose ends in MS causation together: MS is just like heart disease, a disease of fat metabolism Read more >Lancet Neurology rounds up advances in MS in 2011
Lancet Neurology summarises the recent developments in MS for 2011 Read more >Is there a rebound of disease activity after stopping Tysabri, or is it just a return to baseline level activity?
The experts are arguing about what happens when you stop Tysabri: does the disease just revert to what it was doing before you started, or is there a rebound effect? Read more >Vitamin D2 ineffective in MS in small trial
Australian researchers have found no difference between high and low dose supplementation of vitamin D in MS; unfortunately they chose vitamin D2 rather than D3 and this may explain the finding Read more >No clear guidelines about when to start disease-modifying drugs in MS
Even the experts have trouble deciding what the right time is to start disease-modifying drugs in MS, if they are required Read more >Previous traumatic brain injury doubles the risk of developing MS
Researchers from Taipei have found that traumatic brain injury doubles the risk of developing MS over the next six years Read more >Shift work at a young age doubles risk of MS
Stress is known to increase the risk of MS; now shift work undertaken while young has been shown to increase the risk in a case-control study Read more >