Ms.Morford is a professor at the University of New Mexico and part of a research center at Gallaudet University in Washington.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

Years later, Ms.Skloot began research for a book about Henrietta Lacks, her cells and their influence on medical and scientific history.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Ms.Skariah is teaching Indonesians but also learning about the culture of a country with the world's largest Muslim population.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

And, a treatment to suppress the body's defenses against the disease was approved to treat severe cases of MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society says one in every 750 Americans is at a risk of developing MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Ms.Chua is a professor at the Yale Law School in New Haven,Connecticut, and the mother of two daughters.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

The FDA also has approved a man-made form of myelin basic protein to treat this kind of MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Doctors who suspect a patient has MS must carry out a number of tests and study the patient's history of health problems.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

And now Ms.Rhee appears in the film "Waiting for 'Superman,'" a documentary about problems in the educational system.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

So the Ms.Foundation planned a day for parents in New York City to show girls all the possibilities for them in the professional world.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Ms.Lagarde has promised to be a strong voice for developing countries, especially in Asia and Africa.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

Ms.Potter says the Archives has public land records if a family owned land many years ago.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Ms.Skloot says her book is a result of what she learned along the way.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

A person suffering from MS also may have difficulty seeing well or speaking clearly.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

An MRI can show if there are scars from MS along a patient's nerves.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

In people with MS, when nerve signals reach a damaged area, some of the signals are blocked or delayed from traveling to or from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Instead, several genes may increase the possibility that a person will develop MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Ms. Streeter is a trained psychologist and executive director of Ascensions Community Services.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Ms.Peace teaches science at Saint Joseph's, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

Ms.Pramstaller attended Chantilly High School and was a member of Touch of Class.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

Ms.Skloot had a difficult time gaining the trust of the Lacks family.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Ms.Rashid was a Kurdish immigrant from Iraq with an interest in politics.

VOA: special.2011.07.30

Ms.Byrd-Murphy is a native of Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

MS is a disease of the brain and spinal cord.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Ms.Arroyo still enjoys considerable support and won a seat in the House of Representatives in the May 10 election.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Ms.Tenenbaum is set to deliver a speech Tuesday,in Hong Kong, at a toy safety meeting organized by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

Ms.Lee has co-sponsored a bill to lift a travel ban on American visits to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

Ms.Merkel is the first German leader to speak before a joint meeting of Congress, and the first to address the House or Senate since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03