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The Brain Under Siege: Solving The Mystery Of Brain Disease, And How Scientists Are Following The…
Howard L. Weiner
|May 14, 2018
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin sheaths that surround nerve cells, producing a variety of neurological symptoms such as limb weakness and sensory loss. In most cases, the disease progressively worsens…
The Children's Ward: A Novel
|September 14, 2004
A gawky sixteen-year old girl thrashes about in obscene gestures, shrieking in a strange language. In another context, she would be called possessed; to her father, an important physician, she is epileptic; but to Alex Licata chief neurology resident, she is a…
Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis and Therapy
|April 22, 2016
Multiple Sclerosis: a complex disease requiring sophisticated management Multiple Sclerosis poses labyrinthine challenges. There is no blood test to rely on for diagnosis; clinical acumen is essential. Yet an effective diagnosis only takes you part of the way:…
Curing MS: How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis
Howard L. Weiner M.D.
|December 18, 2007
What causes multiple sclerosis? When will there be a cure? Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and debilitating disease that afflicts almost half a million…