<rss xmlns:cm="http://choicemedia.com/content/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>MultipleSclerosisCentral.com - Latest Multiple Sclerosis News</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/</link><description>Latest Multiple Sclerosis News from MultipleSclerosisCentral.com</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>MultipleSclerosisCentral.com</title><width>120</width><height>19</height><url>http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif</url><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/</link></image><item><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:06:03 EST</pubDate><title>Couple's Love Survives Through 'Sickness and Health'</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/news-462328-98.html</link><description>Tom and Vera Forkner have been married for 30 years, and for 12 of those years, the couple has been living with Vera's diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.</description><guid 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