This book covers: mailing to Multiple Sclerosis organizations, reviews in newspaper paperback columns, and feature latest research breakthroughs and likely future treatments. This is a moving, personal account of Dr. Howard Weiner's long-term scientific quest to find a cure for multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and devastating disease. He intertwines the story of the search for a cure over the last 30 years, both his own work and that of other researchers, with the moving and inspiring stories of a number of his patients and their battles with the disease. Offering a message of great hope, he highlights a number of new treatments in early stages of development that are dramatically improving the lives of some MS sufferers, and makes a powerful argument that a cure will be found. Weiner is a published novelist, and his writing skill makes this book much more emotionally engaging and captivating than the typical research saga. The book is written in a wonderfully sensitive and empathetic voice. He invests his account of the scientific quest with his personal passion to make a breakthrough, and writes with deep compassion about the frustration and sorrow that MS sufferers and their families go through with the disease.

Author Biography

Dr. Weiner has been on the forefront of developing new therapies for multiple sclerosis over the past 25 years and has contributed to numerous scientific journals including Science, Nature and The New England Journal of Medicine.