Multiple Sclerosis Expert Dr. Gross shares Multiple Sclerosis management news and commentary at MultipleSclerosisCentral.com. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639 http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639 http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/60109/diseases Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:03:00 -0500 Dr. Gross Multiple Sclerosis can defy logic in its presentation. Alternating complaints of numbness, weakness and dizziness can confuse a host of health providers not to mention the patient suffering through an array of difficulties.At the same time, MS can be quite orderly with a series of monthly very specific neurologic complaints such as numbness in a limb one month followed by weakness and numbness in the same limb the next month followed by... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/60109/diseases http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/59079/disease Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:42:00 -0500 Dr. Gross We live in inflammatory times. When you inflame a situation, you provoke, you incite, and you rabble rouse. The outcome of this seditious onslaught? Irritation, swelling, redness, i.e. inflammation. Inflammation is derived from the Latin word inflammatio, to set on fire whether burning old ideologies about Wall Street, Race, Energy, International Relations or even medical dogma.   Thus, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease of great... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/59079/disease http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/54653/leeches Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:00 -0500 Dr. Gross After ringing in 2009, it’s worth noting that MS research may be disparate, but it doesn’t appear to be desperate as vastly different avenues of research are elucidating new approaches to disease evaluation and treatment.   In the last several months, the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Study Group under the direction of Dale and Pillai in Australia has made an important distinction concerning demyelinating disease... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/54653/leeches http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/52511/backdrop Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:51:00 -0500 Dr. Gross In reviewing a fair amount of Medical Pathology lately involving all body systems, I thought of the song title heading this piece.   You have hundreds of different body tissues in dozens of organs all looking more or less the same under the microscope. I’m talking about the general patterns now, not a super-analytical view of various cells rendered by a histopathologist.   Then you have brain tissue.   And guess what... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/52511/backdrop http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/50868/change Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:05:00 -0500 Dr. Gross Dentistry is “out of pocket health care”. Let’s say you have Multiple Sclerosis and you hit the dentist because you have some oral pain. You may have “health insurance” but you might not have “dental insurance”.  So you get a bunch of dental X-rays (maybe a panorama as they say). Then you get a couple of cavities filled (MS patients in some studies have higher rates of cavities) and get booked for a... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/50868/change http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/49552/fusion Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:56:00 -0500 Dr. Gross Very often, medicine is very territorial. You have this vast field subdivided into subspecialties as if the gods of medicine designate diseases that carry invisible labels reading “Cardiologists only” or “Only Dermatologists Should Visualize This Rash”.   Although many diseases do conform to one organ, if not one part of an organ, this concept of territoriality is oh so wrong for total medicine appreciation. And... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/49552/fusion http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/47034/streets Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:15:00 -0400 Dr. Gross The latest from Neurology on MS. Takin’ It to the Streets- by the Doobie Brothers/Michael McDonald    You don’t know me but I'm your brother (even though you're not an MD) I was raised here in this living hell (Planet Lunatic) You don’t know my kind in your world (most MDs don't have MS) Fairly soon the time will tell (even MD's will get sick) You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me (you already do-... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/47034/streets http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/42418/multiple Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:45:00 -0400 Dr. Gross “Throwing the kitchen sink” at any clinical problem an MS patient might have is sometimes "generally justified" based upon our high tech world of testing gadgetry and sophisticated immunomodulators combined with the devastating threat of the disease.   I actually can trace my career in medicine back to the day when there were neither sophisticated immunomodulators nor high tech testing gadgetry.   It was the time of the... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/42418/multiple http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/41168/medical Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:50:00 -0400 Dr. Gross Medicine doesn’t lend itself to sound bytes. It’s confusing enough to live in the non-medical world of 20 second TV News pronouncements:   Russia and Georgia shoot and kill each other - South Ossetians cry foul! Yao Ming commits foul on U.S. Olympian in the act of shooting! These stories and an Iraq War update straight ahead after Action Weather!!! But first, the latest on Lindsay Lohan’s alleged... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/41168/medical http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/40026/multiple Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:11:00 -0400 Dr. Gross When I heard Michelle Obama at the Democratic Convention, I was blown away by the clarity of her ideas and by the power of her message.             This was topped off by the fact that she drew inspiration from her late father, who apparently struggled with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).   It was shocking to hear MS integrated into her speech because the disease seemed to be "off... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/6639/40026/multiple