What is the MS CURE FUND?
It is a national nonprofit organization based in Boston, MA dedicated to help create awareness, educate, and raise funds for MS research to help find a CURE for Multiple Sclerosis. It was founded in 2004 by MS patient (Susan Strachan) in an effort to :

1. Create awareness about the disease and help newly diagnosed understand its debilitating symptoms
2. Conduct educational programs and seminars
3. Raise much needed MS research funds that go directly to the scientists and clinicians.

"MS CURE FUND PUTS A FACE TO MS"

Along with other MS patients, they are the "FACES of MSCure" - they are making a difference with your help.
In our efforts, we are trying to create awareness about Multiple Sclerosis through educational seminars and programs along with raising much needed FUNDS directly for RESEARCH. Our funds provide researchers and scientists the ability to study the disease and learn more about determining its causes. Currently, proceeds benefit Dr. Howard Weiner's research at the Partners MS Center and the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts.

Who Is Dr. Weiner?
He is a world renowned MS research doctor and is highly regarded in his field and amongst his peers as the fore father of MS research. Dr. Weiner has been on the cutting edge of developing new therapies for MS for more than thirty years and just recently wrote a book called:
"Curing MS : How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis".

What is Multiple Sclerosis or MS?
Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic demyelization and often disabling disease of the central nervous system that causes unpredictable symptoms ranging from severe disability including numbness, inability to walk, impaired vision, cognitive dysfunction, bladder and bowel problems, extreme fatigue to total paralysis or blindness.

Who contracts MS?
Young adults between the ages of 20 and 40 and it is twice as common in women as men, perhaps related to hormonal factors. The incidence of MS is ten times higher for those living above the 40th parallel, worldwide. - Most scientists think the cause of MS is "multifactorial". The person's genetic heritage, gender, birthplace, age and environment contribute to susceptibility, resistance, and pattern of the course of MS.

It is not an inherited disease, in the strict sense, but certain susceptibility does run in families.
One theory suggests a common viral infection in your early teens results in the development of an immune response (autoimmune reaction) when one becomes an adult. In this autoimmune process, immune cells mistake myelin for a foreign invader and attack it.

MS affects nearly 500,000 people with 200 new cases reported each week in the US and over 2 Million people worldwide.

GOAL:
Through fund raising events such as golf & fishing tournaments, social galas, networking seminars, corporate sponsorships and private donations, we look to raise $1Million by 2010.
Please join our efforts by making a tax-deductible donation today. Thank you for your support.

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