- SUNDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — There's no one single way to
suffer from multiple sclerosis.

Every patient exhibits different symptoms as the disease gnaws away at
the nerve endings in the brain, the spinal cord and even the eyes.

Doctors aren't even sure what causes MS, or what makes one person more
likely to get it than [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Jalapeno Peppers Latest Suspects in Salmonella
Outbreak

If it's not the tomatoes, maybe it's the peppers.

That's the latest theory into the cause behind the salmonella outbreak
that has sickened 943 people across the United States since April,
according to the Baltimore Sun

The [...]

An obese man walks through Sydney. British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)

PARIS (AFP) -
British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, [...]

LOS ANGELES - Magic Johnson’s normally publicity-shy wife Cookie is emerging as a spokeswoman in a campaign urging black women to get tested for HIV.
Cookie Johnson is appearing with the former LA Lakers star in a five-year, $60 million public service campaign with ads directed by moviemaker Spike Lee.
She was two months pregnant when her [...]

Keisha DeLapp, left, holds a picture of her older sister Amanda, who in 1984, died and her liver donated to Trine Engebretsen, who is seen in the photo that DeLapp’s mother, Alisha, is holding at their home in Mayfield, Ky., June 16, 2008. Now, 25 years after the surgery that forever connected two families, [...]

A father holds his infant son. Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday.(AFP/File/Str)

PARIS (AFP) -
Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday.
It [...]

Taking in the sight of the Cherry Blossoms along the Tidal Basin, a man walks a baby in a stroller near the Jefferson Memorial (background), in Washington in this April 1, 2002 file photo. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

BARCELONA (Reuters) -
Couples trying to have a baby when
the man is over 40 will have more difficulty conceiving than if
he [...]

Rob Brant, owner of City Medical Services poses with liquid oxygen and oxygen tanks at his warehouse Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in North Miami Beach, Fla. Medicare is changing the way it pays for wheelchairs, oxygen tanks and other equipment in 10 regions, a move expected to eventually save $1 billion annually but has enraged [...]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -
It pays to use a toilet in southern
India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by
using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to
promote hygiene and research in rural areas.

Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in Musiri, a
remote town in Tamil Nadu state, where authorities [...]

PARIS (AFP) - L’âge du père joue un rôle sur la réussite de la conception, selon une étude menée par un centre français de reproduction assistée auprès de couples ayant des difficultés à avoir un enfant, qui montre une diminution du taux de grossesse lorsque le père a plus de 40 ans.
Si l’effet de l’âge [...]