Multiple sclerosis - Poisoning in slow motion - Multiple sclerosis (MS) often follows a highly individual and unpredictable course, sometimes leading to chronic and occasionally devastating disabili...

Multiple sclerosis - In orthodox medicine, the current fashion in combating multiple sclerosis (MS) is to administer immune modifiers: interferons 1b and 1a, copolymer 1 a...

Rheumatoid arthritis - In treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), conventional medicine has concentrated on powerful drugs to suppress symptoms. But there are a surprising numb...

Rheumatoid arthritis - Four years ago (WDDTY, vol 8, no 6) when I first wrote about rheumatoid arthritis (RA), I reported that wearing copper bracelets, correcting low gastr...

Case study: rheumatoid arthritis and HRT - I have had rheumatoid arthritis for more than 10 years. When it was first diagnosed, I was given Indocid, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Wh...

Treat depression to slow down multiple sclerosis - New evidence suggests that effective treatment of depression may also slow the progress of multiple sclerosis (MS) in these patients. ...

Rheumatoid Arthritis: But which drugs work? - There are plenty of drugs around for treating rheumatoid arthritis – but doctors don’t have a clue which ones work. Even though researchers have been...

Multiple sclerosis - The cause of MS is still a mystery. Many viruses have been strongly suspected, particularly the measles virus (Arch Neurol, 1990; 47(7):743-6). If t...