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New educational materials help patients talk to their physicians about sensitive subjects via a Patient Point joint venture of UroMed and Cure Medical to offer valuable incontinence and catheterization information in urology exam rooms. […]

mobileWOMEN.org magazine will be spotlighting the stories of UroMed’s female Hometown Heroes as an inspirational program for their readers. mobileWOMEN.org is an online magazine for women who use wheelchairs. […]

UroMed, a leading urological medical supply company, is now a preferred provider of Cure Twist™, a discreet catheter for women. UroMed is one of the nation's top providers of disposable catheters for men, women and children. […]

Researchers at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and at Stanford, have reported separate studies making inroads to understanding factors that stimulate the repair of myelin, the nerve insulation that is a target of multiple sclerosis. These important laboratory discoveries, supported in part by the National MS Society, are still in early stages an […]

A new study of 496 people newly diagnosed with MS found that the risk of developing MS was 47% higher in African American women, compared with Caucasian American men or women. It also found that the risk was 50% lower in Hispanic/Latino Americans, and 80% lower in Asian Americans. […]

Bimbo Bakeries USA and Flowers Foods “Summer Bun” Program Benefits National MS Society […]

Among 618 people at high risk of developing MS, significantly fewer people taking oral Aubagio® (teriflunomide, Genzyme, a Sanofi company) for two years had developed clinically definite MS than those taking placebo, Genzyme announced in a press release dated April 25, 2013. […]

Results that led to larger-scale clinical trials of daclizumab high-yield process (DAC HYP, Biogen Idec and Abbott Pharmaceuticals) have been published. The phase II SELECT trial found that this monoclonal antibody, taken by injection under the skin every four weeks, significantly reduced the average annual relapse rate and the risk of progression in a study […]

The New England Journal of Medicine has published two reports from Europe of people with psoriasis who developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML, a viral infection of the brain that usually leads to death or severe disability) while taking fumarate-based treatments. It has not been proven that the treatment caused the infection. No such cases […]

“It’s like going from 21 to zero, when you first learn to crawl and walk. Now I have to learn to move my body in a whole different way.” When Janice Wray lost control of her car on Route 95 in Connecticut last year, everything stopped. A 2009 graduate of East Greenwich High School, Janice […]

An unfamiliar, unlit pool and a split-second decision to dive. That tragic combination changed Chase Jones’ life forever. The 28-year-old University of Georgia graduate broke three vertebrae in his neck, leaving him largely paralyzed from the shoulders down. “This is something I’m still coming to terms with in some way every day,” said Jones, who […]

This world of ours is full of barriers and limitations for individuals with disabilities; especially, those who are in power wheelchairs. But, one limitation that should not be accepted is the difficulty of airline transportation for the disabled. The current standard for air travel for those in power wheelchairs is exhausting, dangerous, many times embarras […]

Project Walk® Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center, the world leader in spinal cord injury (SCI) recovery […]

A spinal cord injury can happen to anyone yet no one is prepared for life after the injury. […]