Multiple Sclerosis 2

Date Submitted: 11/14/2002 06:08:31
Category: / Science & Technology
Length: 4 pages (963 words)
Multiple Sclerosis is a disorder of the central nervous system involving decreased nerve function associated with the formation of scars on the covering of nerve cells. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects approximately 1 out of 1,600 people. Women are affected about 60% of the time. The disorder most commonly begins between 20 to 40 years old. MS is one of the major causes of disability in adults under age 65. Multiple sclerosis involves repeated episodes of inflammation of nervous tissue in any …
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…are a lot of advances in the progress of MS but nothing is completely getting rid of the disease. Now they are working on a plasma transfusion which has worked for 40 percent of the people who tried it. The people were totally paralyzed from the waist down and in fourteen days they were up and walking on their own. So hopefully my mother can take advantage and maybe be able to improve her condition one-day.
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