National MS Society News

Researchers studying MS—its nature, cause, and effects in the brain—sometimes need brain tissue from people who lived a lifetime with the disease. The National MS Society supports two MS tissue banks to provide these resources.

 A tissue bank is very close to what it sounds like: an area in a laboratory or medical center where tissue specimens are “deposited” and stored for later “withdrawal” and use.[More]
 

Since its first broadcast in 1999, MS Learn Online, the National MS Society's Internet program, has been a successful way to educate about multiple sclerosis. View pre-recorded webcasts to learn more about MS from the convenience of your own home. Programs cover a wide variety of topics such as information for people newly diagnosed, MS basic facts, symptom management, employment, intimacy, care-partners, and progressive MS.

Each program may include:

By JEFF CHU Her goofy humor and disarming frankness won Meredith Vieira myriad fans as the host of The View and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On Sept. 13 the veteran journalist and mother of three takes a seat opposite Matt Lauer as the new co-anchor of NBC's Today show. She talked with TIME's Jeff Chu about how her husband's battles with cancer and multiple sclerosis have changed her, working moms who want to have it all, and her favorite story of all time. In 2002 you turned down CBS's Early Show and said you "don't like getting up early in the morning." What's different now? It's the Today show. It's an institution.[More]

Double Whammy Another look at MS and something else The June/July issue of Inside MS included a description of the work of the MSplus Foundation. In an interview with Margaret Barney, she discussed the support groups in Olympia and Houston, as well as other efforts by the Foundation to support people with dual diagnosis of MS and cancer. Click here to download and read the article.