Curing MS: How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis

by Howard L. Weiner

Book Overview

Explores the medical community's past and present efforts to cure multiple sclerosis, explaining how the disease is caused, and sharing information on drug and treatment breakthroughs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307236048
• ISBN13: 9780307236043
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An important book from a major researcher

As someone living with MS, this is one of the most important books I've read. The author is on the front lines of MS research, and he gives frank and detailed explanations of exactly what is being done to find a "cure" (and what can be considered a "cure"). He helps you understand the real truth behind the two-minute sound bites the national media occasionally hypes regarding MS research. This book is an excellent and important read for anyone interested in the science behind the research.

Curing MS

After living with MS for eighteen years, I have learned more about the desease I am fighting from reading this book than from any other source of information I have read over the years. Dr. Weiner's writing style was informative, as well as personal and humane. Dr. Weiner pointed out the reality of the desease yet made the reader aware of progress that has been made in MS research during the last thirty years. His optomistic, yet reality based writing allowed me to enter his personal life , to catch a sense of how driven he is to find the cure for MS. I encourage anyone who has MS or family and friends of a person with MS to read this book from cover to cover.

An important book about the science of MS

The book reads like a detective novel, I couldn't put it down and read it in two nights.I read it because my daughter has MS and I learned more about MS from this book than from all my reading on the internet which in the end was very confusing. Dr. Weiner writes in such a clear and easily understandable way and yet does not scrimp on the science. He writes in a warm and accessible manner. Everyone that knows someone with MS and anyone that has an interest in medicine and science should read this book.

A great read, very informative

I read this book and feel I have learned much about the disease MS. I understood what I was reading as it is written so that a person with no medical background can understand the disease and it's treatments. What I enjoyed most from this read was it had a very human side. It has a story format and introduces you to patients, and you get to know them and their struggles with the disease, their apporaches to new and experimental treatments and you follow through with them and find yourself rooting for them. Thank you, Dr. Weiner for writing a book that combines both learning and emotion.

A great book about science and MS

I just finished reading, Curing MS, and truly enjoyed it. I rarely read anything about science and have never taken a biology course, but Weiner made the subject very understandable. One of the best things is the way he would periodically repeat certain facts and concepts so I didn't have to go back and look them up. I felt like I was learning things as I went, and when I got to the chapter on the twenty-one points, I realized that I knew quite a bit. For me, the most interesting part (along with the extraordinarily complex and diverse way that MS manifests itself in individuals) was the discussion of the "business" of medicine -- the intense competition somehow coupled with amazing amounts of cooperation. This is quite a journey Weiner has undertaken and he let's us see both the rewards and the frustrations. Because the book is written from a personal point of view, it gives a human face to medicine that I found both reassuring and moving.