Multiple Sclerosis: The Questions You Have, the Answers You Need - Softcover

Rosalind Kalb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936303167 ISBN 13: 9781936303168

Publisher: Demos Health, 2012

Synopsis

"Multiple Sclerosis: The Questions You Have, The Answers You Need" is the definitive guide for everyone concerned with the disease - those who have MS and those who share their lives with someone who has it. It covers a wide range of topics in an accessible question and answer format that allows people to easily find the information they need while providing a model of successful communication with healthcare providers. The contributors are leading authorities in all areas of multiple sclerosis management, who proffer expert answers to the most common questions about living with MS - medical, emotional, social, and economic - and represents a interdisciplinary approach to the disease. The book's goal is to help those with MS and their families formulate questions to ask their healthcare providers so they can manage life with MS. The chapters cover topics ranging from neurology and treatment to emotional, sexual, and employment issues. Introductory material is followed by a series of questions most often asked of the authors in their work with MS. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. All chapters have been revamped. The book provides the most current information on Multiple Sclerosis including a review of the controversy surrounding Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCVSI) and Multiple Sclerosis, discussion of the first two pills in development for Multiple Sclerosis (up to this point all Multiple Sclerosis treatment have been injectable), new information on the drug Tysabri, and discussion of other newly developed drugs and drugs that currently under development.

About this title

About the Author

Rosalind Kalb, PhD, is Associate Vice President of the Professional Resource Center at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) in New York City, providing educational materials and consultation services for healthcare professionals. She is the author of Multiple Sclerosis a Guide for Families, 3rd Edition and co-author of Multiple Sclerosis: Understanding the Cognitive Challenges both published by Demos Health. She is co-author of The A to Z of Multiple Sclerosis published by Checkmark Books in 2006, and is co-author of Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies. She regularly publishes in professional journals and speaks all over on the world on the subject.

Edition details

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936303167
• ISBN 13: 9781936303168
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Rosalind Kalb