Category: MSAA Achievements

The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) received a 2013 Top 5 Award from TV Access for the Swim for MS TV Public Service Announcement (PSA). This award honors the exceptional TV PSA Campaigns that rated in the top 5% of all PSAs in 2013 as reported by Nielsen Media Research.

MSAA’s booklet, How to S.E.A.R.C.H.™ for the Right Therapy for You!, was selected as a Silver Award winner in the 20th annual National Health Information Awards. This program recognizes the nation’s best consumer health information programs and materials.

On October 30, 2013, the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) debuts a new mobile website (accessed at mymsaa.org via a mobile device) to meet the growing needs of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and their care partners. The mobile website allows users to have on-the-go access to many of the resources currently available on MSAA’s desktop website. The mobile website is another example of how MSAA continues to develop initiatives to improve lives today for the entire MS community.

The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) is pleased to announce new website additions including an MS Relapse Resource Center and chat feature to its award-winning website, mymsaa.org. As a leading resource for the entire multiple sclerosis (MS) community, MSAA developed these additions to provide easier access to vital information and assistance to individuals with MS, their care partners, and healthcare professionals.

MSAA is pleased to announce that Healthline.com has named MSAA’s My MS Manager™ mobile phone app as one of the top smartphone and tablet applications for the iPhone and Android platforms. Healthline selected the best MS apps based on the potential to assist individuals and their loved ones in a number of ways.

The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) is pleased to introduce its new website, mymsaa.org.

My MS Manager™, the first-of-its-kind mobile phone application developed to help individuals better manage their MS, is now available on the Android platform. Since its launch in the Apple App Store in June of 2011, My MS Manager has been downloaded more than 9,000 times, with users entering data about their MS on various Apple mobile products.

MSAA is proud to announce that a 2012 APEX Award for Publication Excellence has been given to our online video webinar, "How to S.E.A.R.C.H..™ for the Right MS Therapy for You!" This is the first APEX Award MSAA has received in the category of webinars and the eighth APEX Award received overall. This year’s APEX award competition drew approximately 3,400 entries across a range of 11 categories.

The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) is proud to mark the 10-year anniversary of one of its most sought after programs – the MRI Institute. This program is designed to help people who have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and lack health insurance coverage, acquire an MRI scan. The Institute has been supported by the pharmaceutical companies EMD Serono, Inc. and Pfizer Inc since 2002. During that time, the Institute has helped over 7,500 individuals who have MS and could not otherwise afford an MRI to monitor their multiple sclerosis.