Posts By: Sue

16,500 plus people sent a message to party leaders demanding they protect disability benefits.

Source MS Society 16,500 plus people sent a message to party leaders demanding they protect disability benefits. We’re part of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), a network of more than 80 disability charities and organisations. And today we came together with our communities to deliver an open letter to party leaders, urging them to make… Read more »

Cognition and cognitive symptoms

Source MS Trust Do you struggle to find the right word at times? Or do you perhaps go into your kitchen to fetch something and don’t remember what you were meant to get? Read more about Cognition and cognitive symptoms  

How I learned to love my walking stick

Source The Guardian When Penny Anderson began using a stick, it made her feel vulnerable. But it taught her a lot about other people – and customising it made it her own. Read moreabout How I learned to love my walking stick

Acne treatment may slow onset of MS

Source MS Society: Minocycline, a common acne treatment, may slow down the onset of MS in people with Clinically Isolated Syndrome (CIS). Read moreabout Acne treatment may slow onset of MS

Treatments available

Updated therapies available list, noting New Osteo starting on Weds from mid June…… further details to follow. Treatments available

Great South Run please sponsor

Tracy O’Reilly, a friend of Dave Howell (MS member and great supporter of the centre, from Bicester) is running the Great South Run on 22nd October for the Centre.  There is a paper sponsorship form at the centre or you can sponsor her at: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/TracyOReilly  (the picture is of Tracy and Dave).

May newsletter

Dear Readers, You may have heard that the Age UK Oxfordshire office has now moved. We are still in Abingdon. Our new address is: 9 Napier Court, Barton Lane Abingdon OX14 3YT. Do come and visit us! Some of our classes – why not try one? NEW! Strength & Balance – Jericho Community Centre – Fridays… Read more »