Edited by author 11-07-2007 12:30 AM
Victoria,
interesting topic and websites which you do a great job describing for us. Obviously your last two--NINDS and National MS society are major websites. You might look past this one article at the whole site if you choose to review the national MS society website.

I though the All About MS website was interesting and had allt he personal stories, some great graphics on the general description of MS and it would make an interesting less or minor website to review.

The EBSCOhost website wouldn't open...it seems to need a login

I didn't see any peer feedback on the other folks in your color group.

Choose topic: 10 points
Find four websites: 15 points
Peer reviews: 0 points

I did it again- these four link topics below are mine not Shiori's VVVVV

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/howms.html good use of diagrams and related links. cluttered at first look but seems to have a good deal of information available.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/multiplesclerosis.html awsome website- good links and pecialized topics. very informative and user friendly.
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/Page..._research_2007oct18 nice article but fairly uneducational compared to other sites. not much for links and pictures.
BAD LINK on ebscohost

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/howms.html
This is great website that helps us to understand. Including the picture of nerve is so much better than other website. Also there are lots of details.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/multiplesclerosis.html
There are many kinds of information about this disease, and the best thing is information is divided for children, women, and men.
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/Page..._research_2007oct18
This site covers mainly researches that have been done recently. I think this site require s people to have knowledge before reading.
I could not go to the website #2 because of security problem.

http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.yc.edu/ehos...d7e%40sessionmgr102
It would not let me open

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/howms.html
I liked this website. I liked the drawing it included and it seemed easy to understand. It went in depth as far as what MS does to the axon and the myelin. It also had some good points on what happens to the nerve after demyelination occurs.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/multiplesclerosis.html
This is a very detailed website but you have to click around to get to the information. Navigation was a pain, but if you were looking for information there was a place to be able to access it from this website.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/Page..._research_2007oct18
This website was very good and to the point when I figured out how to navigate it. I found the topics of interest to be very good and adequately explained. I especially liked the part about special events that raise funds to make the public more aware of MS.

Edited by author 11-05-2007 09:49 AM
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/Page...agename=HOM_RESThis website was interesting in the fact that the "research" page came up first as if to give me good news first. It then made me want to browse. I liked that each section was short, but gave opportunity for continued information.
I like visuals, there were no pictures. Other than that, I couldn’t find much I didn’t like.

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 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/multiplesclerosis.html
This is a very informative website. It had many areas of really good information. It has an interactive tutorial site that I really enjoyed.
I found the over-all site hard to navigate. I couldn’t get back to the previous page as easily as I would have liked.

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/explainingms.html
This was an interesting site written in plain English so that any one could understand.The author didn’t say he had MS. He used many terms we have learned in class which was interesting to understand as I read. It would have been nice to know a little more about the authors personal experience.

http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.yc.edu/ehos…d7e%40sessionmgr102
This site came up unsecured. I don’t know enough about computors to navigate myself through. I did not view this site.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/Page..._research_2007oct18


WHO: National M. S. Society Researchers Eliza Gordon-Lipkin, Dr. Peter Calabresi (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) and other collaborators published their results in the October 16, 2007 issue of Neurology

WHY: This is just one example of the important progress being made by more than 50 investigators collaborating in our Nervous System Repair and Protection initiative,” said John R. Richert, MD, Executive Vice President of the Society’s Research and Clinical Programs. “The goal is to pave the way for clinical testing of therapies to protect and restore function in people with MS; I’m happy to say that the pace of this vital endeavor is accelerating.”

WHAT: This article was interesting because researchers could use a new machine to see the thinning of the nerves at the back of the eye and see evidence of brain shrinkage in MS. This is a relatively new technique, which can be used on people with all different types of M.S.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/multiplesclerosis.html


WHO: NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

WHY: This page was designed to provide people with information on the diagnosis, and possible treatment of M.S. as well as highlights of current research.
WHAT: Many investigators believe that M.S. is an autoimmune disease, in which the body launches an attack against its own tissues. In the case of M.S., it is the nerve insulating myelin that comes under assault. The attacks are caused by an unknown source, like a virus.

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/howms.html

WHO: I am not for sure who wrote this, but after going through this and the proceeding web pages, I think that the author is Paul Jones.

WHY: He is posting this web page because he was diagnosed with M.S. in 1999. He wants to share his story and help keep people informed about the disease

WHAT: There are many different pages and links to his web page. The one that I thought gave the most information about the disease was the one with the link above.
This page is very informative; it gives information about what exactly the disease does to the CNS. (It strips the myelin off the axons)

http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.yc.edu/ehos...d7e%40sessionmgr102

WHO: Sara Silberman, a writer from the magazine Inside M.S.
WHY: I think that she is posting this to inform the public and people with
     M.S. of the research and the new findings
WHAT: The author wrote that researchers thought that if they could identify the
     Biological nature of the differences among people with MS and possibly identify different causes of the disease--they could diagnose, treat, and make prognoses based on those differences. There is also “ The MS Lesion Project,” they are looking at the way the lesions appear on MRI scans. The researches say that they may be able to determine what type of MS a person might develop by their lesions

Edited by author 10-21-2007 07:01 PM
My topic is going to be Multiple Sclorsis. I have chosen this topis because it relates to the chapters the we just finished containing the nervous system and also because i have been the caregiver for the past few months for a womon who has the disease.