Disease, Multiple Sclerosis | featured news

Chris Wright was playing professional basketball in Turkey last year, working toward achieving his lifelong dream of playing in the NBA, when something strange happened at the end of practice.

iReporters show no two people afflicted with MS has exactly the same symptoms, and no two people will react to it the same way.

The new class of drug, which can be taken orally, is designed to protect the brain by combating the damaging effects of inflammation. Results from early stage clinical trials have yet to be announced, but studies on animals suggest the therapy could be effective against a wide range of conditions which also include motor neurone disease and complications from traumatic brain injury.

For years, New Yorker Vincent Tropeano watched helplessly as multiple sclerosis ate away at the body of his frail wife, Elaine, until it all became too much. After she became a prisoner in her hospital bed on the first floor of their Brooklyn home, where she suffered the indignity of no longer being able to use the bathroom, he completely snapped Saturday.