Know Multiple Sclerosis

As you can see by the column on the right side of this page, news about MS comes in every day.  I find the medical news alerts to be the most useful.  When I try to go out on the web and find news on my own, I usually find articles of no interest to me.  Examples of these would be anything announcing an MS event occurring this weekend in Nebraska.  I live in California - that does me no good.

The internet gives us so much information it can be difficult to filter the good stuff from the, <eh-hem> not good stuff.  So finding a feed like the one on this site which specializes in an area is helpful.  This particular feed is for multiple sclerosis-related medical news only.

Another consideration with finding news about multiple sclerosis is learning how to deal with all the information.  An example is an article I recently read which announced the results of a study that found fathers were more likely to have children who develop MS than mothers.  Being a father, I found this very disturbing.  But I also realized that there's a lot of reason for hope, and that this particular study is just another stride in trying to understand the disease.  My point is that some of the information you see in these articles is troubling, but I would rather know than not know.  And every piece of information we get brings us closer to understanding MS.

I find it necessary to learn as much as I can about the disease, even if some of the things I discover are scary.  The more knowledge I arm myself with, the better decisions I can make.