From Treatment Desert to Blooming Field of Breakthroughs: Multiple Sclerosis By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD, MSPH Research prior to 2019 underestimated the prevalence of neurological diseases, and specifically Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by over one-half. A new algorithm, including health insurance claims data, determined that the population suffering from MS was not around 400,000 but actually closer to one million (913,925).1,2 This discovery continues the forward progress begun in 1981 when the first MRI pictures of a brain affected by MS were produced, revolutionizing MS diagnosis. Eleven years later, in 1992, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society funded the first [...]