Everything we’ve collectively done over the past year — social distancing, washing hands, staying home, wearing masks — has contributed to the slowdown in infection rates and cases. But the…
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After a challenging 15 months, we’re entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been a long and difficult 15 months as we’ve collectively lived with the COVID-19 pandemic and…
MS Awareness Month is an opportunity to draw attention to our MS community and help educate others about what it means to live with multiple sclerosis. Over the years that’s…
As COVID-19 vaccines become more and more available across the country, and COVID infection rates are generally on the decline, there’s no shortage of questions about how those vaccines may…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Information contained in this article is current as of the time of printing, Nov. 25, 2020. Despite months of precautions, warnings and official guidelines, the COVID-19 pandemic is…
It’s often a long, stressful road to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. While technology and medical techniques have certainly advanced in recent years, the diagnosis process still involves collecting a…
In the past, diagnosing MS took a long time. Collecting the evidence that leads to diagnosis was based mostly on making clinical observations — keeping track of common MS symptoms,…
Early and accurate diagnosis of MS is probably the most important component of MS treatment — getting patients on effective therapies as quickly as possible has a dramatic effect on…
Finding a ‘Typical’ Presentation in a Disease that’s Anything But Typical If you’re reading this, you or a loved one probably have direct experience with receiving an MS diagnosis. And…
When looking back at 40 years of MS history, it’s hard to overstate the importance of one technological advancement in particular — the MRI. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, was…
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Pete Broderick is the Marketing and Communications Manager at the Rocky Mountain MS Center. He is also the editor and one of the primary writers for InforMS Magazine.