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Diabetes drug may help treat MS

(United Press International) UPDATED 2009-05-27

Scientists at the University of Illinois-Chicago say the diabetes drug Actos may help protect the brains of people who suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS). For their study, researchers recruited patients with relapsing remitting MS and assigned them to one of two groups, one that received Actos and one that was given a placebo. Investigators found that the patients taking Actos showed significantly less loss of gray matter during the course of the one-year trial than patients taking the placebo. Read full story >

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