MS ‘Wonder’ Drug: Hopes dashed as trials discover it’s no better than placebo

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. ...