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Connecting this World MS Day!
With less than a week to go until World MS Day this Saturday 30 May, we wanted to share with you more about what we have planned, and how we can all connect with ourselves and each other!
When we looked at the new three-year World MS...
MS Australia partners with Women’s Health Week
MS Australia is pleased to announce a community partnership with Jean Hailes for Women’s Health for Women’s Health Week 2020.
The national health awareness campaign, held every September, raises awareness of the importance of maintaining good...
MS Australia Connections Hub launched today by Tim Ferguson
$1M funding commitment for MS research
Alcohol consumption during COVID-19 pandemic and MS brain health
Recently-released new data shows one in five Australians have bought more alcohol than usual during the COVID-19 pandemic, most people are drinking more and have concerns about their alcohol use and the drinking of others in their household.
National polling by...
MS treatments on July PBAC agenda
The MS Australia Board's statement in support of COVIDSafe App
MS treatments announcements from PBAC
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) makes recommendations to the Australian Government about the medicines for subsidy through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Today (24 April 2020), the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) made the following...
Report on Senate inquiry into barriers to access to medicinal cannabis in Australia tabled in Senate
The Senate’s Standing Committee on Community Affairs tabled its Report on an “Inquiry into the current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia” in the Senate on 25 March 2020.
With the help of the MS community, MS Australia and research partner organisation MS...
Updated advice for persons with multiple sclerosis and related disorders regarding COVID-19 outbreak
Background
Since December 2019 following cases emerging in and around Wuhan, China most regions of the world have now experienced cases of a novel respiratory illness (COVID-19) caused by a new coronavirus which has been identified as SARS-CoV-2. The mortality of this...
An update from Paralympian cyclist Emily Petricola
On 13 January this year we introduced you to MS Australia Champion and paralympian cyclist Emily Petricola who talked to us about life with MS and training...
