Still Mad?

US health officials have detected an atypical case of “mad cow disease” in a beef cow at a slaughter plant in South Carolina, they announced in a statement on Friday, May 19. The US Department of Agriculture said the animal “never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply…

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Multiple Sclerosis

What is MS? Multiple Sclerosis (or MS) is an autoimmune disease. That means the body’s immune system is attacking healthy tissues; In this case, the central nervous system. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society defines MS as an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain,…

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