Linkage: Three Things from Around the Net
Jan. 27th, 2009 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msf_staff≈ Sometimes the direction MS research turns is surprising. We're used to hearing about immunomodulators, stem cells, genetics... but worms? Anne Marie and I are in disagreement about this article. It gives her a bit of the heebie-jeebies, but I'm feeling vindicated for letting my boys play in the dirt.
≈ As I was getting ready for work this morning, I heard the familiar voice of a friend, coming from my TV! I looked up to find Jonna Patton on the Today Show, talking about her "bionic leg" - the electric stimulator she uses for MS foot drop. I knew Jonna before she got the device, and I can tell you, it really did make a dramatic difference for her. But she was always a go-getter, bum leg or not.
It was a very good piece, I thought, and nice to see a national media outlet devote almost 8 minutes of air-time to an MS symptom. Good job, Today Show!
≈ The new issue of MSFocus is available online - for those of you outside the U.S., or anyone who just can't wait for it to hit their mailbox. The feature series is on genetics and MS, but there's also a really interesting article on drugs in the pipeline for progressive MS. That's something people have been asking about for a while.
≈ As I was getting ready for work this morning, I heard the familiar voice of a friend, coming from my TV! I looked up to find Jonna Patton on the Today Show, talking about her "bionic leg" - the electric stimulator she uses for MS foot drop. I knew Jonna before she got the device, and I can tell you, it really did make a dramatic difference for her. But she was always a go-getter, bum leg or not.
It was a very good piece, I thought, and nice to see a national media outlet devote almost 8 minutes of air-time to an MS symptom. Good job, Today Show!
≈ The new issue of MSFocus is available online - for those of you outside the U.S., or anyone who just can't wait for it to hit their mailbox. The feature series is on genetics and MS, but there's also a really interesting article on drugs in the pipeline for progressive MS. That's something people have been asking about for a while.