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Low Dose Naltrexone
Clinical trials and anecdotal reports suggest that low doses of the opiod antagonist naltrexone offer promise to patients with a variety of different autoimmune diseases.
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Low Dose Naltrexone Update
Mounting evidence shows that LDN offers more than a promise. At the 3rd Annual LDN Conference, researchers gathered to share their latest findings.
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Low Dose Naltrexone in Multiple Sclerosis
On September 17-20, 2008 Montreal hosted the World Congress on Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Presentations included 4 encouraging reports on low dose naltrexone (LDN).
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Benefits of Low Dose Naltrexone
LDN exerts its beneficial effects by reducing inflammation and oxidative stress, modulating the immune system, and inhibiting cancer cell proliferation.
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Focus on Low Dose Naltrexone
For this MS patient, LDN has been a miracle cure. To encourage awareness and funding for more clinical trials, she's marching 53 miles to meet with state health advisors.
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Low Dose Naltrexone: Hope for PPMS
Low dose naltrexone has been used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis for over 20 years, but only now was the first official study published.
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Glutamate Excess in Multiple Sclerosis Variants
Accumulations of the amino acid neurotoxin glutamate, long suspected of causing neurological disease, have been implicated in neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
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Infertility Treatments
Infertility is one of the endorphin deficiency states. LDN increases endorphin levels and helps the immune system heal, factors that increase and enhance fertility.
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Drug May Help Women Stop Smoking
A drug used to treat drug addicts and alcoholics with their addictions appears to help women stop smoking. It's cheap, relatively safe, and it may help save your life.
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A pill to Cure alcoholism?
Using science to battle cravings, withdrawl, and alcohol itself – the Cure or another Tool in the Recovery shed?
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Battle of the Booze: New Medications
Researchers find new medications to combat alcohol abuse as well as to reduce the physical, mental and social symptoms among alcoholics fighting their addiction.
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Fibromyalgia Treatment
Low dose naltrexone is a prescription drug used off label for MS and other medical conditions. Subjects are needed for the first clinical trial of LDN in fibromyalgia.
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Off-Label Prescription Drugs
With the increasing costs of specialized drugs, some insurance companies are refusing to pay for drugs prescribed for off-label conditions--what this means for you.
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The Fat-Itch Syndrome
Welcome to the vicious circle of what I call the fat-itch syndrome. You're exhausted anyway and sleep deprivation from itching just makes things magnify beyond belief. So what can you do?
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Autoimmune Eye Diseases
Researchers at both Pennsylvania State University and Harvard University are conducting clinical trials on promising topical therapies for autoimmune eye disorders.
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Autism and Social Behavior
Social dyfunction, maybe one of the most defining features of autism, can be classified in one of three different categories.
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Benefits of Acupuncture
Researchers have shown that the physiological effects of acupuncture are primarily derived from an increased production of endorphins and other natural opioid peptides.
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Differences between CFS/ME and FM
There is no full consensus whether fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) are the same thing, but does it even matter?
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Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis
In pediatric MS, the onset occurs before age 16; in children, the disease progresses slower than it does in adults although permanent disability occurs at a younger age
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Achieving Remission
Remission, either permanent or temporary, refers to the absence of active disease in patients with chronic disorders.
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Medication, Personality & Suicide
What do we know about the effectiveness of drug therapies used in the treatment PD suicidal behavior? Dr. Robert Cardish sums it up.
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