How daily doses of caffeine may battle multiple sclerosis

 
By Jim Killackey
Published: July 1, 2008

The same caffeine in your morning cup of coffee, afternoon soft drink or evening's chocolate ice cream dessert is being used by an Oklahoma City scientist to conquer the debilitating disease known as multiple sclerosis, or MS.

A new study co-authored by Linda Thompson of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation discovered that mice immunized to develop a condition like MS were protected from the disease by drink...


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