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Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Increasing Among African Americans

By Fern GillespieFor many years, Dr. Michelle King-Huger was a noted educator working as an assistant principal in several Harlem public schools. Then, in 2007, her life began to crumble. She lost her husband to a heart ailment. By 2011, her continuing health crisis was diagnosed as progressive multiple sclerosis. She evolved from a cane […]

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