Multiple Sclerosis
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Articles, Fact Sheets, Pamphlets, Journals & Videos
PARL subscribes to the Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center database. This service is available free to anyone with a Library card. Not only can you access thousands of articles, pamphlets and fact sheets on various health topics but also informative video files. Below are links to a sampling of the many resources from the database available on the subject of Multiple Sclerosis.
What's Happening to Me?: Invisible MS
Visiting the Doctor: What MS Patients Should Know
Symptom Management for Multiple Sclerosis
Advice From Health Care Professionals Living With Multiple Sclerosis
Making Sense of Clinical Trials
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Suggested Books
These books are just a small sample of books on the topic of multiple sclerosis from our collection. Please search the online catalogue for a more complete listing.
- Managing multiple sclerosis naturally: a self-help guide to living with MS
- Blindsided: lifting a life above illness: a reluctant memoir
- The comfort of home multiple sclerosis edition : an illustrated step-by-step guide for multiple sclerosis caregivers
- Multiple sclerosis: the history of a disease
- Everybody stretch: a physical activity workbook for people with various levels of multiple sclerosis
- Meeting the challenge of progressive multiple sclerosis
- The brow of dawn: one women's journey with MS
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Local Information, Organizations & Featured Links
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada - Atlantic Division
71 Ilsley Avenue, Unit 12
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B3B 1L5
Telephone: (902) 468-8230
Fax: (902) 468-5328
Toll-free: 1-800-268-7582
Email: info.atlantic@mssociety.ca
Website: http://www.mssociety.ca/atlantic/
Health Connections Resource Centre
HEALTH CONNECTIONS in the People's Place Library.
283 Main Street,
Antigonish, NS B2G 2C3
Tel: (902) 863-7369
Fax: (902) 863-9318
Email: smithlj@gasha.nshealth.ca
Provides free health information and support.
Mayo Clinic on Multiple Sclerosis
Website:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/multiple-sclerosis/DS00188
Medline Plus - Multiple Sclerosis
Website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/multiplesclerosis.html