A Moving WayTo End A Serious Disease (NAPSA)—Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Racereality show, knows how to Moveit during MS Awareness Week to help end multiple sclerosis. He knows that when it comesto reality, no one chooses to have MS. He also knows that with your help, there is a great opportunity to spread the word and raise awareness of MS so that we can move closer to a world free of this disease that every hour stops someone new from moving forward with his or herlife. Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from reduced or lost mobility to Phil continues to Move it for the MS movement. This spring, he is MSin any one person cannot yet his bike ride across America that raised awareness of and funds to end MS. numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of be predicted. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and over 2 million worldwide. Advances in research are moving us closer to ending the disease and MSistreatable for the majority of people who are now diagnosed. This is a very exciting time if you have MS or know someone wholives with the disease because MSresearch has reached a watershed year, with more than a dozen therapies that hold promise of new and improved treatments for the disease moving through the pipeline, including thefirst oral therapies. This makes our commitment to advance MS research ever more important. This MS Awareness Week and beyond,it is time for you to Move it to end MS. Congress is supporting the goals andideals of MS Awareness Week with a congressional resolution. To find out ways that you can join Phil releasing a documentary about Keoghan and be a part of MS Awareness Week and the MS Movement, as well as encourage others to do likewise, visit nationalMSsociety.org. Whether you volunteer, bike, walk, advocate, educate, sup- port—every action is a unique way of movingus closer to a world without multiple sclerosis and shows your commitment to the MS Movement. It also helps to motivate the potentially millions of people who want to—and can— do something about MS now. From the Society’s national site you will find ways to build the MS Movement. You can even find out how you can share your own video story, download Web ban- ners, or sign up to participate in or volunteer for Walk MS, Bike MS or some other special event offered by a chapter near you. Progress on MS can’t wait. Bea part of the amazing race to end MS and find your own way to Moveit during MS Awareness Week and beyond by visiting www.nationalMSsociety.org! aa neeeee- eee ee ee eee eee eee PManne eee eee e eee e eee eee Note to Editors: MS Awareness Week is March 8 to 14, 2010 but this article can be helpful to your readers at any time.
