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MS
Because of medical advances made in the early 19th century the people started to identify MS around then and found the earliest of cases in the 1800s -
Confusion
Many scientists were baffled by what this disease could do to the body and its resistance, for about 50 years they studied those who died from it. -
National MS Society
Sylvia Lawry, founds the society that pushes for a world free of MS -
Internationally racing for eradication
Only a couple years later the international foundation was created by the same person searching for eradication. -
Major Parrtner
In 1950, the new Society helped persuade Congress to establish a special section of the National Institutes of Health. With the birth of what is now called the National Institute for Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the movement against MS gained one of its strongest partners. -
Progress, no cure yet
Progress has thus been remarkable. Throughout history MS was an untreatable disease, then in two decades (1993–2015) researchers developed more than a dozen
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treatments that suppress attacks and alter the course of MS