The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7453 p600
26 May 2007

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Testosterone of use in MS?

Treatment with testosterone may slow brain degeneration in men with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (Archives of Neurology 2007;64:683).

A group of 10 men applied testosterone gel to their upper arms for 12 months after a six-month observation phase in which no therapies were administered. Treatment was associated with an improvement in cognitive performance and a slowing of brain atrophy, the researchers report.