ms: Denver MS Walk 2014 - I Need Your Support
- 04/18/13 03:38 PM
THIS PAST WEEK WAS NATIONAL MUSCULAR SCLEROSIS WEEK ~ Denver MS Walk 2014 ~ Muscular Sclerosis affects more than 2 million people worldwide, with 350,000 of those being reported cases here in the United States and constantly increasing. The onset of this disease affects adults usually between the ages of 20-40, and mostly women. It is a disease that is mostly invisible unless one has the progressive form or is having an exacerbation, even then the outside world may not notice. I am asking for your help. I am fund raising again this year. In 2013, I was one of the (3 comments)
ms: Could You Be the 1 In 800?
- 05/03/11 09:52 AM
~ Could You Be the 1 In 800? ~ The statistics are overwhelming. How does one contract it? Is it genetic? Is it environmental? Are the symptoms definitive? The answers to those questions are still to be answered. Muscular Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects the body's central nervous system at the brain and spinal cord causing the myelin coating of the nerves to degenerate. This degeneration can eventually cause a progressive or permanent disability. Currently there is no cure. There are approximately 4.5 million people worldwide that have been diagnosed with the disease, of which about 400,000 of them are in the United (9 comments)