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The public library is the original and still champion information center of our towns and cities. But getting books about multiple sclerosis multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic, slowly progressive autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the protective myelin sheaths that surround the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord (a process called demyelination), resulting in damaged areas  onto their shelves is a challenge for these often underfunded un·der·fund  
tr.v. un·der·fund·ed, un·der·fund·ing, un·der·funds
To provide insufficient funding for.

underfunded adjinfradotado (económicamente) 
 institutions. Demos Medical Publishing, Inc., and chapters of the National MS Society are working together to put in the fix.

Demos has published a shelf-full of authoritative MS books, from clinical texts for health professionals to the 485-page all-in-one-place MS reference The Questions You Have, The Answers You Need.

Founded by Diana Schneider, PhD, in 1986, Demos has worked closely with the National MS Society over the years, with Society staff often serving as advisors and authors.

The Demos Public Library Program offers all MS titles at lower than retail price. Chapter staff contact libraries and raise funds locally for the purchase. Demos plates the books to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft.  the donors, and ships them. But in Mississippi Mississippi, state, United States
Mississippi (mĭs'əsĭp`ē), one of the Deep South states of the United States. It is bordered by Alabama (E), the Gulf of Mexico (S), Arkansas and Louisiana, with most of the border formed by
, volunteers opted to deliver them to cement cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then grinding it to a fine powder.  the contact and leave brochures about the Mississippi Division of the All America Chapter events and programs. Some 4,000 books on MS have been placed in public libraries so far.

See opposite for notice of yet another MS "classic" published by Demos.
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Publication:Inside MS
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Date:Mar 22, 2002
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