iConquerMS seeks participants for COVID-19 study

iConquerMS, together with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, are conducting a study to understand how people living with MS have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is open to everyone, whether or not they have been diagnosed with, exposed...

New Study Gives Hope for Early Detection and Treatment of MS

Everyone I know who has multiple sclerosis (MS) can tell me the date they were diagnosed with the disease. Most have at least a vague recollection of their first symptoms. But when did their MS actually begin? MS May Begin Before Symptoms Manifest In a study published...

When Specialists Are Few and Far Between, Online Tools Can Help

Although I’ve been living what I refer to as a “healthy life with multiple sclerosis” for quite a few years now, a serious medical complication coupled with New Year’s resolution time had me looking for a better way to cope with symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and...

How I’m Using My Brain to Overcome a Damaged Cerebellum

I got to the secondary-progressive stage of multiple sclerosis (MS) three decades after my diagnosis. At this point in my life, every small thing seems difficult to do, even picking up something that was dropped on the floor. I do it, complaining the whole while about...

Research Reveals Another Possible Epstein-Barr Virus Link to MS

For years researchers have believed a link exists between the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple sclerosis. But scientists have had a hard time finding a precise association. Now, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are reporting another possible connection....