Oregon Chapter

 

MS Breakfast with Channing Frye
Monday, March 31, 2008 at the Oregon Zoo -
Cascade Crest Banquet Center from 7:30 – 9:00 am,
for the Oregon Chapter’s first ever, MS Breakfast with
Channing Frye, of the Portland Trail Blazers. Channing and
his parents will speak at this event, honoring local, unassuming heroes
who are living with MS daily. Visit www.defeatms.com for more information.


Did you know?

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 Oregon has one of the highest incidence rates
of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the country; five
times the national average.
•
 Someone is newly diagnosed with MS every hour
of every day in the United States.
•
 Nearly 10,000 of the more than 400,000 Americans living with multiple
sclerosis are children and adolescents—some as young as two years-old.
•
 The Oregon Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
serves more than 7,000 individuals with MS and their families
in Oregon and Clark County, WA.
•
 The Society helps each person address the challenges of living with
MS; funds more MS research, provides more services to people with
MS, offers more professional education and furthers more advocacy
efforts than any other MS organization in the world.
•
 The Oregon Chapter delivers services and provides comprehensive programs:
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 Financial Assistance for Care Management, Medical Equipment Purchase and Repair
 
•
 Information and Referral
 
•
 MS Self-Help Groups and Newly Diagnosed Programs
 
•
 Respite Care Program
 
•
 And much more


About Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and it stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.5 million worldwide.


About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn’t. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS. In 2006 alone, through our home office and 50 state network of chapters, we devoted nearly $126 million to programs that enhanced more than one million lives to move us closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested more than $46 million to support 380 research projects around the world.


About the Oregon Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Oregon Chapter serves more than 7,000 individuals with MS and their families in Oregon and Clark County, WA. We have been dedicated to achieving a world free of MS since 1963. We want to do something about MS now. Join the movement at www.defeatms.com

Early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can make a difference for people with multiple sclerosis. Learn about your options by talking to your health care professional and contacting the Oregon Chapter, National MS Society at www.defeatms.com or 1-800-344-4867.