Aug 28, 2009
StudioPMG Challenge Walk MS
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, with an office in Costa Mesa, has announced that StudioPMG, an Irvine-based interactive marketing agency, has been named the title sponsor for Challenge Walk MS Southern California 2009, a fund-raiser featuring about 300 people walking 50 miles over three days, Sept. 11 to 13, from Carlsbad to Downtown San Diego. StudioPMG offers fully integrated marketing solutions, including creative, technical, and promotion with a special focus on the healthcare industry.
This year's Challenge Walk, the eighth annual, is expected to raise $1.2 million for MS research and programs and services for Southern Californians living with MS, a chronic, unpredictable and disabling disease of the central nervous system with no known cause, cure or prevention. The minimum donation required to walk 50 miles in the Challenge Walk is $2,500 per person, which includes overnight hotel accommodations and meals. Walkers will include supporters of Society’s Pacific South Coast and Southern California Chapters, as well as people with MS and friends and family members. Joyce Nelson, President & CEO of the National MS Society, will also be walking in the 50-mile event. Read her blog.
Walkers will have 20-mile routes the first two days, followed by 10 miles on Day #3. Actress and comedienne Teri Garr, who has MS, is scheduled to entertain at the end of Day #2. Read about Teri online.
Presenting sponsors of Challenge Walk MS include Continental Airlines and Bayer Healthcare. For more information about Challenge Walk MS 2009, to register as a walker or volunteer, or to make a donation, visit www.myMSchallenge.com.
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About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the body and stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.1 million worldwide.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn’t. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS. Last year alone, through our national office and 50-state network of chapters, we devoted over $136 million to programs that enhanced more than one million lives. Locally, the Pacific South Coast Chapter provides programs and services designed to help the 18,000 people and families affected by MS in San Diego, Orange and Imperial counties move their lives forward. To move us closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested approximately $50 million to support 440 research projects around the world. Nearly $4 million is spent on MS research in our area annually. We are people who want to do something about MS NOW. Join the movement at www.nationalMSsociety.org.
Early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can make a difference for people with multiple sclerosis. Learn about your options by talking to your health care professional and contacting the National MS Society at www.nationalMSsociety.org or 1-800-344-4867 (1-800-FIGHT-MS).
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