What if the biological mechanisms that cause multiple sclerosis were triggered years before clinical diagnosis? This is what a team at Paris Brain Institute suggests in a new study published in ...

Country music star Clay Walker, 56, shares new details about his battle with the incurable disease multiple sclerosis.

An analysis of data from phase 3 randomized controlled trials showed that among individuals with comparable disease duration, inflammatory disease activity was significantly lower in older trial ...

In January 2022, a study of 10 million people over 20 years revealed that Epstein-Barr virus increases the risk of multiple ...

New research suggests that Epstein-Barr virus may actively provoke the immune system in people with multiple sclerosis. Scientists found large buildups of virus-targeting immune cells in the nervous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study finds that in about one in 10 cases of multiple sclerosis, the body makes a distinct set of antibodies years before ...

Some research suggests that people with multiple sclerosis are at a higher risk of atherosclerosis. An increased risk hasn’t been established, and we don’t know how MS might increase the risk. Having ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Smoking is an established risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). Smoking also worsens the course of disease for people who already have MS. MS is an inflammatory disease that involves the breakdown ...

About 1 million people are living with multiple sclerosis in the U.S., and about 10% of those have PPMS, making it the least common form of the disease.

An international research team has gained new insights into the dynamics of myelin swellings in the brain. Myelin swellings are considered as the precursor of lesions in the brain of people with ...