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Dr. Gross on Multiple Sclerosis
Thursday, February 19 2009
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... Read more
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Dr. Gross on Multiple Sclerosis
Wednesday, February 11 2009
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... Read more
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Dr. Gross on Multiple Sclerosis
Tuesday, January 06 2009
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... Read more
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Dr. Gross on Multiple Sclerosis
Tuesday, December 16 2008
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... Read more
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Dr. Gross on Multiple Sclerosis
Tuesday, December 02 2008
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... Read more
