Latest Health Articles for Multiple Sclerosis

• Charges unlikely for helping suicide in England

  article 2009-09-24  |  Author: Raphael G. Satter
  England's top prosecutor unveiled new guidelines that could decriminalize many forms of assisted suicide, saying Wednesday that most people who help close friends or family kill themselves aren't likely to face charges.Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, warned that there were no guarantees but said those who helped adults ...

• McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall

  article 2009-08-27  |  Author: Amanda Lee Myers
  Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.The Arizona senator hadn't yet opened up the meeting at McCain's central Phoenix church to ...

• More people live with paralysis than doctors knew

  article 2009-04-21  |  Author: Lauran Neergaard
  Five times more people are living with a spinal-cord injury than doctors have thought — nearly 1.3 million — says surprising new research that finds many of them unable to afford key health care.Overall, 5.5 million people in the U.S. have some degree of paralysis due to a variety of ...

• Father struggles to carry on slain family's legacy

  article 2008-07-21  |  Author: John Christoffersen And Susan Haigh
  A year ago, Dr. William Petit had a thriving medical practice. He lived in a comfortable colonial house adorned with flower gardens in an upscale Connecticut suburb with his wife and two daughters admired for their charitable works.Then two intruders turned the tranquil setting into a suburban nightmare. The hours-long ...

• Beekeepers coming to West Virginia for conference

  article 2008-07-07  |  Author: John Raby
  The buzz around Marshall University this week will be about the importance of honeybees.About 300 beekeepers were expected to join 12 vendors and dozens more presenters at the Heartland Apiculture Society's annual conference starting Thursday in Huntington.Speakers will educate conference attendees about bees and stress their importance at a time ...

• Hundreds of beekeepers to meet at US university this week for annual conference

  article 2008-07-07  |  Author: John Raby
  The buzz around Marshall University in the U.S. state of West Virginia this week will be about the importance of honeybees.About 300 beekeepers were expected to join 12 vendors and dozens more presenters at the Heartland Apiculture Society's annual conference starting Thursday in Huntington.Speakers will educate conference attendees about bees ...

• Plastics expert wins $500K Lemelson-MIT award

  article 2008-06-25  |  Author: Mark Jewell
  Joseph DeSimone's expertise in chemistry has yielded advances in environmentally sensitive plastics manufacturing, medical devices for blocked coronary arteries and minuscule engineered particles that may someday help diagnose and treat disease.For those achievements, the 44-year-old professor has won this year's $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, to be announced Wednesday at the Massachusetts ...