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Research Now (formerly Research Highlights Newsletter) offers eight information-packed pages about what researchers are doing now to improve care and treatment — and to find ways to prevent and cure MS.

Research Now is a quarterly feature of Momentum, the national magazine of the National MS Society.

Research Now

Winter 2009 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• MS and the mind: The latest research on cognitive function
• Investing in the future of MS research

Fall 2009 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• How Dr. David Miller revolutionized our understanding of MS
• Clinically isolated syndrome: Improving the future for people at high risk for MS
• Dangerous foe or tiny protector? Understanding microglia

Summer 2009 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• MS researchers take novel ideas from the lab to clinical trials
• Research shows the way to healthy living
• Are lipids contributing to MS?

Spring 2009 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• MS repair "dream teams" making progress
• Picture it: Why researchers need better imaging techniques
• What’s new? Researchers venture down novel pathways in MS

Winter 2008-09 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• What we learn in the lab
• Investing in the future
• Stepping up to the plate for MS research

Fall 2008 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• MS gene pioneer Dr. Stephen Hauser shares his vision
• Progress from the first Collaborative MS Research Centers
• The challenges of clinical trials recruitment

Summer 2008 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• What researchers are doing for people with MS now
• New explorations launched
• Dr. Nitin Karandikar: Pushing the boundaries of immunology

Spring 2008 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• What causes MS?
• Nervous system repair
• We've come a long way: Research featured at National Conference

Winter 2007-08 (.pdf)

Contents Include:

• Astrocytes: Good housekeepers or not for people with MS?
• Targeted Research: Successes and new directions
• Introducing Fast Forward: Speeding treatments to people with MS
• Meet the investigator
• What does research cost?
   

Research Highlights Newsletter