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Management of Multiple Sclerosis

Management of Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system affecting approximately 1 million young adults, mostly women, worldwide.1 It is characterized by episodic neurologic symptoms that are often followed by fixed neurologic deficits, increasing disability, and medical, socioeconomic, and physical decline over a period of 30 to 40 years. For most of the 20th century, multiple sclerosis was considered untreatable. In 1982, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of the United States sponsored the first international workshop on therapeutic trials.2 This workshop served to usher in an era of activism and optimism . . . http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine

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Publisher
The New England Journal of Medicine
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0028-4793
eISSN
1533-4406
DOI
10.1056/NEJM199711273372207
pmid
9371858
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Abstract

Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system affecting approximately 1 million young adults, mostly women, worldwide.1 It is characterized by episodic neurologic symptoms that are often followed by fixed neurologic deficits, increasing disability, and medical, socioeconomic, and physical decline over a period of 30 to 40 years. For most of the 20th century, multiple sclerosis was considered untreatable. In 1982, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of the United States sponsored the first international workshop on therapeutic trials.2 This workshop served to usher in an era of activism and optimism . . .

Journal

The New England Journal of MedicineThe New England Journal of Medicine

Published: Nov 27, 1997

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