Prednisone or acetaminophen may significantly control flulike symptoms (FLSs) in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) who are treated with interferon (IFN) beta-1a, according to a study presented here at the   more »

The immune system's T-cells react to foreign protein fragments and therefore are crucial to combating viruses and bacteria. Errant cells that attack the body's own material are in most cases driven to cell death. Some of these autoreactive T-cells, however, undergo a kind of re-education to become "regulatory T-cells" that keep other   more »