Not always dwelling on your illness – Ann Romney, MSer

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Two making music: Remote in pandemic, together in MS

Two American musicians with multiple sclerosis, one in Texas and the other in New York, have made something amazing over the last year and a half.

Radio presenter: I have MS, let’s all help find a cure

A sunnier than life radio presenter is the latest celebrity to bare all, figuratively speaking, and reveal to his co-presenters, listeners and, indeed, the world that he has multiple sclerosis. And he is urging everyone to raise money to 'find a cure',

Now Ocrevus blocked from health service in Scotland

Hot on the heels of NICE rejecting Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) as a treatment of PPMS by the National Health Service (NHS) in England, it has been blocked as a therapy for relapsing MS in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) says it does not consider ocrelizumab to be cost effective for the NHS in Scotland  as a treatment …

Getting to see neurologist proves not so simple

Three or so years ago, I was sitting in a North Wales regional meeting of the UK’s MS Society and distinctly remember a society staffer saying that everyone with multiple sclerosis had a right to see a neurologist. If we wanted to see one, we only had to ask. Well, in my case, I had not seen …