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		<title>Why You Should Consult Your Doctor, Not Facebook, On Medical Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study argues that social media and the Internet are so influential that they&#8217;re setting national research priorities. The study, by a group of Canadian doctors, was published today in Nature. Multiple sclerosis is a devastating illness that, experts widely agree, is an autoimmune disease. But in 2008, Italian surgeon Paolo Zamboni submitted that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun exposure, mono linked to multiple sclerosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at 7 years&#8217; worth of data from England, researchers found that areas with a relatively lower amount of sunlight and higher rates of infectious mononucleosis also had relatively higher rates of multiple sclerosis. Together, sunlight intensity and mononucleosis cases explained 72 percent of the geographical variations in multiple sclerosis rates across England, the researchers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/04/sun-exposure-mono-linked-to-multiple-sclerosis/</link>
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		<title>UBC clinic to track patients who have MS &#8216;liberation&#8217; therapy outside Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of British Columbia&#8217;s multiple sclerosis clinic are working to establish standards of care for patients who have travelled abroad to receive a controversial — and as-yet unproven — treatment that widens narrowed neck veins. The provincial government is providing the clinic with $700,000 for the next three years for a program [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/04/the-canadian-press-ubc-clinic-to-track-patients-who-have-ms-liberation-therapy-outside-canada/</link>
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		<title>Prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background: Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) was recently described in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). A subject is considered CCSVI positive if ?2 venous hemodynamic (VH) criteria are fulfilled. Objective: To determine prevalence of CCSVI in a large cohort of patients with MS, clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), other neurologic diseases (OND), and healthy controls (HC), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/04/prevalence-sensitivity-and-specificity-of-chronic-cerebrospinal-venous-insufficiency-in-ms/</link>
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		<title>TFC’s Demitrius Omphroy not letting multiple sclerosis slow him down &#8211; thestar.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with any elite athlete, Omphroy, a 21-year-old rookie defender with Toronto FC, has had to overcome challenges to get here. But his have been on a different scale — fears he was going blind at age 17 as he tried to crack the lineup of a professional soccer team in Portugal; enduring what felt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/04/tfc%e2%80%99s-demitrius-omphroy-not-letting-multiple-sclerosis-slow-him-down-thestar-com/</link>
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		<title>Getting mellow with marijuana may help MS pain, but could hurt brain &#8211; Winnipeg Free Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Multiple sclerosis patients who regularly smoke pot to relieve pain and spastic muscles could be putting their brain function in peril, say researchers, who found that marijuana can further reduce cognitive abilities often already impaired by the disease. In a study in this week&#8217;s issue of the journal Neurology, researchers found that MS patients who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/03/getting-mellow-with-marijuana-may-help-ms-pain-but-could-hurt-brain-winnipeg-free-press/</link>
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		<title>An active approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ray Miller didn&#8217;t let multiple sclerosis control his life. Instead, he fought back. Diagnosed with the physically debilitating disease in 2003, the 32-year-old North Vancouver man has since completed five marathons, including the Ironman Canada competition &#8212; and he&#8217;s not about to stop. Miller is an avid runner, swimmer and biker who trains rigorously to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/03/an-active-approach/</link>
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		<title>From Soup to MS Drug: One Fungus&#8217;s Journey &#8211; BusinessWeek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tetsuro Fujita&#8217;s eureka moment about a Himalayan fungus came in 1985. As the scientist was driving over a bridge between Japan&#8217;s Shikoku and Honshu islands on his way to conduct research on traditional herbal remedies, Fujita was contemplating ways to keep patients&#8217; immune systems from rejecting transplanted organs. He was particularly intrigued by the example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/03/from-soup-to-ms-drug-one-funguss-journey-businessweek/</link>
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		<title>Warm weather may worsen cognitive function in people with multiple sclerosis &#8211; latimes.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warm weather is known to aggravate multiple sclerosis, increasing the number of lesions that develop in the brain and spinal cord and leading to a flare-up of symptoms such as numbness and fatigue. But a new study shows that warm weather can also impair cognitive function. The study, which will be presented in April at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/02/warm-weather-may-worsen-cognitive-function-in-people-with-multiple-sclerosis-latimes-com/</link>
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		<title>Conflicting CCSVI Data Lead to Call for New Research, United Message : Internal Medicine News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Neurologists believe the interventionalists are overstating the possible value of CCSVI and that commercial interests are overriding scientific inquiry,&#8221; according to Dr. Burks, a neurologist and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno. Patients, armed with anecdotal evidence downloaded from the Internet, are certain that CCSVI surgery is the miracle they’ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://with.ms/2011/02/conflicting-ccsvi-data-lead-to-call-for-new-research-united-message%c2%a0%c2%a0internal-medicine-news/</link>
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