NEW YORK, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- With symptoms that mysteriously come and go, ranging from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis, no two people experience multiple sclerosis in the same way. This story focuses on a family in which all four siblings have MS, an unpredictable, life altering disease of the central nervous system.
Today, there is exciting new hope for this family and others living with the disease. The National MS Society is devoting $30 million to fund the PROMISE: 2010 Campaign to advance research and MS care. The Society is launching this effort with a $15.6 million commitment to support collaborative research into ways to protect and rebuild the central nervous system.
The PROMISE: 2010 Initiative focuses on four areas of research and patient care: nervous system repair and protection, Pediatric MS Care Centers to improve treatment and advance research into childhood MS; the Sonya Slifka Longitudinal MS Study, which follows patients over time to understand how the disease affects them and their families; and the MS Lesion Project, the most extensive attempt ever made to map and understand the meaning of MS damage in the brain. For more information on the PROMISE: 2010 campaign, visit http://www.nationalmssociety.org or call 1-800-FIGHT-MS.
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