Category Archives: Multiple Sclerosis

I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS

JLS singer Oritse Williams: ‘I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS to save my mother’

Last updated at 2:39 AM on 24th July 2011

Most young men trying to carve out a career in the music industry have fame and the wealth that accompanies it as an incentive to push them to the top of the charts.

But for Oritse Williams, founding member of platinum-selling boyband JLS, the motivation was his mother’s battle with the incurable illness multiple sclerosis (MS).

Promoting opportunities for young people with MS

Promoting opportunities for young people with MS

Norwich and District MS Society

A guide for newly diagnosed people with MS

Doctors to see patients by video link

Doctors to see patients by video link

The Medical Director of the NHS has said that new broadband technology could allow patients to see doctors remotely as a matter of routine, and that the NHS could even use foreign experts

 

New technology could allow patients and doctors to routinely interact remotely

By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor

4:23PM BST 07 Jul 2011

Doctors will routinely use new broadband video technology to consult patients in their homes within “a year rather than a decade”, the NHS’s medical director has said.