Great Holiday Shopping Idea!

Help spread awareness this winter with holiday cards that benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.  Cards feature festive scenes on the front and information about MS and the Foundation’s mission on the back.
 
On sale now at $3 for a pack of six cards and six envelopes.
 
You’ll also find stocking stuffers like MS Awareness Bracelets, Charms, Pins, [...]

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Neurons Can Regrow!

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 (HealthDay News) — There’s evidence that the adult human brain has the ability to grow new neurons, say researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.
The study included nine people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and a control group of four healthy people. In MS, the immune system [...]

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Breaking M.S. News!

Thanks to Stu over at Stu’s Views and MS Related News for this compliation of stories related to the updates about the Leukemia Drug Alemtuzumab that may reverse M.S. brain damage:
Stories can be found HERE:

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Stress, A Blunder, A Car Crash

As we continue discussions about the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of multi-tasking, the following NPR story is a must-read or a must-listen. 
Think You’re Multitasking? Think Again
Written transcript, podcast, and video clips are available HERE. 

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Jane Austen Meets Barack Obama

What do Adolf Hitler and housecats have in common?  They were just two topics of more than two dozen research papers that filled my Sunday morning, afternoon, and early evening.  Once every eight weeks I hunker down, prepared to review and provide feedback on multitudes of papers, many exceeding ten pages in length. The students’ [...]

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The Dangers of Being a People Pleaser

I’ve done it all my life; I’ve tried to find the impossible way to please all the people all of the time.  It sure can be exhausting.  As I continue to learn more about others with M.S. and read of their stories, I’m left wondering how many others are constant people pleasers, too.  The following [...]

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More than We Think?

So, how many people in the United States have been diagnosed with M.S.  The number 400,000 always seems to be tossed around, but my fellow blogger, Lisa Emrich has done some research into the topic.  Enjoy her article: So How Many People in the U.S. Have M.S.?  Why does the number really matter? Read on [...]

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Trading Two for Twenty-Eight

Friday marked transfusion number five on the Ty-Train.  I can’t believe two things: 1) I’m already headed toward infusion six and 2) I’ll ‘celebrate’ my one year anniversary since my diagnosis in just over a month.
I had 28 solid days this past month.  Sure, some were filled with vertigo, some days towards the end [...]

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The Demons Are Here — and Not Because of Halloween

Sometimes the demons haunt us, don’t they? No matter how much we all try to stay positive, sometimes the fears seep in and take control. The most positive people become frightened and filled with self-doubt.  I have found that life with M.S. brings with it these fears and unfortunately we can’t suppress them all of [...]

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$5M Awarded for New M.S. Research Program

From the National M.S. Society
Anytime you might be tempted to ask yourself – “What can I do, I’m just one person,” you can point to the $5 million awarded for an historic MS research project within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) that MS activists across the country helped to secure.
This is a tremendous [...]

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