I'm grateful to clms1 for telling me that Mitt Romney's wife Ann has MS. Here in Britain, we get a lot of news coverage about American politics but I don't always follow it since I have no vote there. Anyway goofle has just led me to this. Some of that site's links may be interesting.

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has donated 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease which killed her mother ( Read more... )

I apologize to all my members in advance for not notifying you ahead of time on the web forum that was held today in Toronto in regards to CCSVI. The National MS Society posted this article from today's forum (article here) if any of you are interested in reading about it. Dr. Paolo Zamboni talks about his study and more about CCSVI ( Read more... )

An update from the clinical study being down in Buffalo, NY with Dr. Paolo Zamboni:

More than 55 percent of multiple sclerosis patients participating in the initial phase of the first randomized clinical study to determine if persons with MS exhibit narrowing of the extracranial veins, causing restriction of normal outflow of blood from the brain ( Read more... )

Announcing National MS and Parkinson's Disease Registries ActDemocratic Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) is introducing legislation that would for the first time establish a national coordinated system to collect and analyze data on Multiple Sclerosis & Parkinson's disease. Accurate incidence and prevalence information on these two diseases currently ( Read more... )