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.

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... )