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Reducing Stress Could Help Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

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Researchers at Northwestern University studied 121 MS patients and found those who took part in a weekly stress management program prevented new brain lesions from developing.

Brain lesions are a marker of the disease and usually form before a flare-up of symptoms like vision loss or pain.