After ringing in 2009, it’s worth noting that MS research may be disparate, but it doesn’t appear to be desperate as vastly different avenues of research are elucidating new approaches to disease evaluation and treatment.

In the last several months, the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Study Group under the direction of Dale and Pillai in Australia has made an important distinction concerning demyelinating disease in the investigation of children. The researchers found that the...