Ms Jones: reflections on aging, illness, and medicine.

P180: The Effect of Complementary Medicine on Treatment and Prevention of MS Illness in Animal Model

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease that is accompanied by inflammation and myelin deficiency, and this pathological myelin disorder is irreversible. The prevalence of this disease is in 20-40 ages, and the rate of its prevalence in women is 1.7 times more than men. Yet, no effective medicine has been offered for this illness, and the present treatment methods are costly. Regar...

How to develop clinical reasoning in medical students and interns based on illness script theory: An experimental study

Background: Although theory explains the development of illness script, it does not provide answers how medical students develop scripts in their learning. To fill the knowledge gap of developing illness script in medical students and interns, this study aimed to investigate the impact of educational strategies inspired by theory in the development of illness scripts.    Methods: A total of 15...

Feasibility and toxicity of hematopoietic stem cell transplant in multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease of the central nervous system. It affects people of all ages but is more prevalent among 20-40 year olds. Patients with MS can be presented with potentially any neurological symptom depending on the location of the lesion. A quarter of patients with MS suffer from bilateral lower limb spasticity among other symptoms. These devastating effects can be ...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

The Relationship between Perception of Illness and Health-related Behaviors in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Background & objectives: Illness perception has a predictive value in the health-related behaviors of people with chronic illness and its impact on quality of life and disease management is important. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between perceived disease and health-related behaviors in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: This descriptive-correlational stu...