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Recent Examples of multiple sclerosis
In our cover story, journalist Rowan Jacobsen introduces us to Kathy Reagan Young, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2008 and took up phototherapy relatively recently.
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Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
While in college, Mindy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that can cause numbness and muscle weakness, per the Mayo Clinic.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 17 May 2025
Christina Applegate is continuing to speak candidly about her battle with multiple sclerosis.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Besides, her mother had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Karen was 8.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
While in college, Mindy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that can cause numbness and muscle weakness, per the Mayo Clinic.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 17 May 2025
Christina Applegate is continuing to speak candidly about her battle with multiple sclerosis.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Besides, her mother had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Karen was 8.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for multiple sclerosis
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Alexa explained in her reel that Duke University in North Carolina has been working on a clinical trial for cerebral palsy for over five years and has reported success in thousands of cases.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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This coming-of-age film, based on a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, stars Phoebe-Ray Taylor as a sixth-grader with cerebral palsy facing the challenges of being in a mainstream class for the first time.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
1 May 2025
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Over the next 25 years, there would be 51.2 million cases of measles, 9.9 million cases of rubella and 4.3 million cases of poliomyelitis.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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There is no cure for paralytic poliomyelitis.—
Dr. Céline Gounder,
CBS News,
15 Sep. 2022
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“Multiple sclerosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multiple%20sclerosis. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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