Month of Birth Influences MS Risk
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Your month of birth may influence your risk of multiple sclerosis, says a study published online in the British Medical Journal. The study concluded that people in the northern
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NEW YORK  - The time of year in which a  person is born may somehow sway the risk of developing brain  cancer in adulthood, new research suggests.
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Dec. 14, 2004 -- Migraine sufferers have double the risk of strokes, a new study shows. And those who also take birth control pills have about eight times the risk, say researchers.
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Abnormal hormone levels could play a significant role in how multiple sclerosis develops, researchers suggest.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDayNews) -- Statistics suggest Americans are more likely to die at the start of each month than any other time, and now researchers think they've found one possible culprit: mistakes in prescription drug use.
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Babies born in May have an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis in later life, research suggested today. The study, involving more than 11,500 patients in Britain and 17,800 in Canada, found that
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A gene that helps to stave off the effects of multiple sclerosis has been discovered by scientists.
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The time of year in which a person is born may somehow sway the risk of developing brain cancer in adulthood, new research suggests.
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[Health India]: Washington, Oct 12 : An article published in the October 11 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, has revealed that alcohol consumption may slightly increase the risk for developing a certain type
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NEW YORK  - People diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) during childhood take longer than older MS patients to reach the stage where they become irreversibly disabled, but this point arrives at a younger age.
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NEW YORK  - Low environmental levels of fine and ultrafine particulate matter, as well as carbon dioxide, increase the risk of stroke, but the heightened risk occurs only during warm weather months, Finnish researchers report.
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It turns out May is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month for a reason. Children born in May have a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis, according to a new study published on the online edition of the British Medical Journal.
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Higher levels of vitamin D in the blood may lower the risk of multiple sclerosis, research suggests.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- The kind of work a father does may affect the risk of birth defects in his children, claims a study in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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NEW YORK  - The abnormal immune response that leads to multiple sclerosis, or MS, is stronger in African Americans than in whites with the disease, new research indicates. This may partly explain why blacks often experience greater disability.
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Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's  disease and other neurological diseases may be far more common  than most people had believed, according to new estimates  published on Monday.
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BEING born in May has been linked to a greater risk of developing Multiple Sclerosis, new research has discovered. November births carry the lowest risk of MS, research out today on bmj.