He was diagnosed in 1993 and his primary symptoms are numbing and loss of feeling to his lower left leg causing a slight limp and optic neuritis of his left eye.

He is a patient of Dr. Howard Weiner, MS neurologist at the Partners Center for MS at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He also is a participant in the Harvard Multiple Sclerosis Natural History Study.*

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• Ropes & Gray Overview

Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and debilitating disease that afflicts almost half a million Americans. Curing MS is his moving, personal account of the long-term scientific quest to pinpoint the origins of the disease and to find a breakthrough treatment for its victims.

Dr. Weiner has been at the cutting edge of MS research and drug development, and he describes in clear and illuminating detail the science behind the symptoms and how new drugs may hold the key to "taming the monster." From the "Twenty-one Points" of MS--a concise breakdown of the knowns and unknowns of the disease--to stories from the frontlines of laboratories and hospitals, Curing MS offers a message of hope about new treatments and makes a powerful argument that a cure can--and will--be found.

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