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This webpage will be under continuous construction. More and more links will be added as time opens up for me to work on them.

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Multiple Sclerosis websites

Multiple Sclerosis Society websites

• NMSS: National Multiple Sclerosis Society - one of the most comprehensive and most well known organizations whose purpose is to educate and help people who have MS or caretakers of such people
• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada- the Canadian version of NMSS.
• Multiple Sclerosis Society- the British equivalent of NMSS.
• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia- the Australian version of NMSS
• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Auckland, New Zealand
• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland

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Multiple Sclerosis Foundations, Research Organizations, or General Information websites

• The Myelin Project- inspired by their son's disease, the Odone family started an organization that searched for a cure to ALD. Their research on myelin and diseases associated with myelin continues. If you are familiar with Lorenzo's Oil, then you are familiar with this organization.
• Montel Williams MS Foundation
• Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
• MSAA- Multiple Sclerosis Association of America
• CMSC- Consortium of MS Centers
• MSRC: Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre
• Multiple Sclerosis Trust- UK organization providing information and education for people with MS
• Multiple Sclerosis International Federation- the World of Multiple Sclerosis
• MultipleSclerosis.com
• MSnet
• MS-network
• Multiple Sclerosis Central Support
• Rocky Mountain MS Center
• UCSF MS Center

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MS websites designed by people or caretakers of people with MS

• MultipleSclerosisSucks- one of my favorite MS websites written by someone who knows first-hand what it means to have MS.
• MS Crossroads- has tons of links for info about MS; much more comprehensive than this site.
• MSNews- a website of physician-authored information and articles
• MSDirect

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Databases that have a section on MS

• Medline Plus's section on Multiple Sclerosis- Medline is part of NLM and NIH (National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health)
• Mayo Clinic's pages on MS
• Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia: Multiple Sclerosis pages
• Neurology channel- info on MS
• InteliHealth: Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information- MS section
• WebMD's section on MS
• NINDS: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - MS pages
• Malaghan Institute of Medical Research- MS pages
• eMedicine's section on MS
• HealingWell.com- MS resource center

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Professional or published articles/books/journals on the Web

• Book: Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future (2001)- National Academy Press puts some of their books online for free; this happens to be one of them.
• Journal: Multiple Sclerosis, Clinical and Laboratory Research- an online journal that publishes articles about MS; membership or subscription fee may be needed to read articles

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Websites to go along with MS meds

• Betaseron
• Avonex
• Copaxone
• List of drugs at the NMSS website

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General Health info that I've found useful for handling living with MS

• Scalp acupuncture- this is one of the few things I have found that helps me handle symptoms. I can't take any of the injectable MS drugs because I am a side-effects magnet. With regular acupuncture, I am able to function as normally as possible. This link actually goes to my doctor's website. He and his colleagues are amazing people who truly are healers.