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What causes multiple sclerosis? When will there be a cure?
Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and devastating 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 is 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.” In Curing MS, Dr. Weiner teaches us the “Twenty-one Points” of MS, a concise breakdown of the knowns and unknowns of the disease; tells stories from the frontlines of laboratories and hospitals; and offers a message of hope that a cure can—and will—be found.
Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and devastating 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 is 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.” In Curing MS, Dr. Weiner teaches us the “Twenty-one Points” of MS, a concise breakdown of the knowns and unknowns of the disease; tells stories from the frontlines of laboratories and hospitals; and offers a message of hope that a cure can—and will—be found.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I can recommend I, I is a clear vieuw of classical medicine and MS up to now.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
A great book about science and MS
2 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
I just finished reading, Curing MS, and truly enjoyed it. I rarely read anything about science and have never taken a biology course, but Weiner made the subject very understandable. One of the best things is the way he would periodically repeat certain facts and concepts so I didn't have to go back and look them up. I felt like I was learning things as I went, and when I got to the chapter on the twenty-one points, I realized that I knew quite a bit. For me, the most interesting part (along with the extraordinarily complex and diverse way that MS manifests itself in individuals) was the discussion of the "business" of medicine -- the intense competition somehow coupled with amazing amounts of cooperation. This is quite a journey Weiner has undertaken and he let's us see both the rewards and the frustrations. Because the book is written from a personal point of view, it gives a human face to medicine that I found both reassuring and moving.
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Curing MS
16 Oct 2004
Format:Hardcover
After living with MS for eighteen years, I have learned more about the desease I am fighting from reading this book than from any other source of information I have read over the years.
Dr. Weiner's writing style was informative, as well as personal and humane. Dr. Weiner pointed out the reality of the desease yet made the reader aware of progress that has been made in MS research during the last thirty years. His optomistic, yet reality based writing allowed me to enter his personal life , to catch a sense of how driven he is to find the cure for MS.
I encourage anyone who has MS or family and friends of a person with MS to read this book from cover to cover.
Dr. Weiner's writing style was informative, as well as personal and humane. Dr. Weiner pointed out the reality of the desease yet made the reader aware of progress that has been made in MS research during the last thirty years. His optomistic, yet reality based writing allowed me to enter his personal life , to catch a sense of how driven he is to find the cure for MS.
I encourage anyone who has MS or family and friends of a person with MS to read this book from cover to cover.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
An important book about the science of MS
4 Oct 2004
Format:Hardcover
The book reads like a detective novel, I couldn't put it down and read it in two nights.I read it because my daughter has MS and I learned more about MS from this book than from all my reading on the internet which in the end was very confusing. Dr. Weiner writes in such a clear and easily understandable way and yet does not scrimp on the science. He writes in a warm and accessible manner. Everyone that knows someone with MS and anyone that has an interest in medicine and science should read this book.
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