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Is Your MS Treatment Working?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex, individual disease. No two people with this disease have the same symptoms, progression, or response to treatment. That makes a collaborative approach with your doctor even more important than usual. It's key to tailoring multiple sclerosis treatment just for yo
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Side Effects of MS Treatments

When you're first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), so many different thoughts and worries can race through your mind. How will it affect my life? Will I be able to work? Will I lose my ability to walk? Having MS today is a lot different than it was a few decades ago. Medications like interfer
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Treating Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

Living with multiple sclerosis means living with uncertainty. The course of the disease is very difficult for doctors to predict. Some people live with MS for years without suffering serious symptoms. Others may rapidly become disabled. Why the course of the disease varies so widely remains unclear.
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Q and A With Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne burst onto the music scene when she was just 17. Raised in the small town of Napanee, Ontario, her debut album Let Go, released in 2002, went platinum four times. Its most popular song, "Complicated," became a number-one single worldwide, as have four other singles released since then.
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Multiple Sclerosis: Questions to Ask Your Doctor

Important Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Multiple Sclerosis What course of multiple sclerosis do you think I have? What additional symptoms could I develop? How can I better manage symptoms at home? What drug(s) should I take to treat my MS? How will I know if the drugs are working? What side ef
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Multiple Sclerosis: The Importance of Treatment

When Michael Williamson was 16 years old, he noticed a few odd cramps one day at a cross-country track meet. His coach told him to run them out. A day or so later, he woke up completely paralyzed from the waist down. After a lot of testing and poking and prodding, Williamson was told he had somethin
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When MS Attacks

Call it a flare-up, call it an exacerbation, call it a relapse -- whatever you call it, you can't call it fun. Many people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis can go days, weeks, months, or years without major changes in their symptoms, but then suddenly, an MS relapse hits. How do doctors d
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Tommy Hilfiger's Personal Connection to Multiple Sclerosis

Designer Tommy Hilfiger has played a leading role in the world of fashion since he was 18. So it's no surprise that his foray nearly 15 years ago into a different arena -- giving back -- was done with style. The red, white, and blue ski jackets he designed for the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple
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Multiple Sclerosis: Advances in Research and Treatment

While the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS) is still not known, advances in treatment options and new understanding about the disease have been especially brisk in the past few years, researchers say. As a result, the future for the 400,000 Americans with the chronic, sometimes disabling disease may
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Clay Walker Strums Up Funds for Multiple Sclerosis

When guitar picker Clay Walker lost coordination in his right hand while playing basketball with friends in 1996, the Texan was justifiably nervous. "At first I was kind of laughing about it," he recalls. "But then I started having double vision and dizziness, and I couldn't stand up. And I realized
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