Swedish MS Foundation are organising an information event in Lund, Sweden on World MS Day. Click here to look at the event programme and to register for the event. Tweet This Post Share on Facebook
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Swedish Neurological association “Neurologiskt Handikappades Riksforbund” (NHR) launched a new website this year, to coincide with World MS Day. The website has been developed to assist people who have been recently diagnosed with MS by giving them valuable information about the disease and how they can treat it. NHR coupled the launch with the findings of a report which they also carried out this year. The association say that the report, which questionned people in Sweden with MS about issues they face regarding work and employment, found that 1 in 5 people with MS say that they have lost their job due to the condition. For more information and to view the report, please see the website http://www.avstamp.nhr.se/Avstamp http://www.avstamp.nhr.se/ Tweet This Post Share…
Neurologiskt Handikappades Riksförbund (NHR) in Sweden are launching a new book to coincide with World MS Day this year. The book – which is about MS and the right to a correct diagnosis and effective treatment – will be launched nationally, and local branches of NHR are encouraged to hold their own events to support the book in their own area. A press conference will be held in Stockholm, and they are expecting attendance from respected Neurologists, people with MS and the media, as well as jazz musician and NHR ambassador Louise Hoffsten. Through this book they are hoping to raise awareness of MS and its symptoms, and make the right to diagnosis and treatment a talking point politically. To find out more, go…
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