ECTRIMS 2023: Obesity Tied to Disability Progression, Declines
Obese people with multiple sclerosis (MS) had faster disability accumulation, greater cognitive declines, and worse quality of life in the 15 years after diagnosis relative to patients with normal weight, according to an analysis of Swedish data. While it’s been known...
ECTRIMS 2023: Foralumab Seen to Ease Brain Inflammation in SPMS
Six months of treatment with foralumab, administered into the nose, led to decreases in microglial activity in five of six people with nonactive secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) involved in an expanded access program. Microglia are resident immune cells...
Newly Diagnosed With MS: 12 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
Each day, at least 300 individuals are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and it’s thought to affect some 2.8 million people globally. Learning you have multiple sclerosis (MS) can be shocking and confusing. You know you need more information — a lot of it — but you...
Data: Lucid-MS Seen to Be Safe, Well Tolerated in Healthy Volunteers
FSD Pharma’s Lucid-21-302 — an oral treatment candidate known as Lucid-MS, for all types of multiple sclerosis (MS) — was found safe and well tolerated across multiple doses in healthy volunteers, according to interim data from a Phase 1 clinical trial The newly...
Rehabilitation in Progressive MS Found to Help Cognitive Function
Two non-pharmacological rehabilitation approaches — one using a computer program designed to improve working memory and the other involving standardized cognitive-behavioral group sessions — both improved the cognitive function of people with progressive forms of...
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Our Mission Statement
Provide programs, events, activities and services for people living with MS in Southwest Virginia and the surrounding areas, including veterans.
Educate and empower people with MS, their care partners, friends and family. We will guide people to organizations that may be able to assist with their needs.
Contribute to awareness in the community, including educational programs to young people, first responders and community organizations.
Encourage and expand support groups to include assisted-living facilities, homebound people and help others start upbeat groups like ours.