Who was Elizabeth Roboz Einstein and her MS breakthrough?

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein was a very smart woman who made a big discovery about multiple sclerosis, or MS for short.

Imagine your body is like a busy city with lots of roads, these roads are like the nerves in your brain and spinal cord. When someone has MS, it's like there are potholes or roadblocks that make traffic (or messages) between your brain and body go slower or get lost. This can cause problems like tingling, weakness, or even blindness.

Elizabeth figured out a breakthrough, a really important discovery, about how to help clear those roadblocks in the city of the body. She found that using cortisone, which is like a special kind of medicine, could reduce the number of roadblocks and make traffic flow better again. This helped many people with MS feel better faster.

Think about building a tower with blocks, if some blocks are missing or broken, the tower doesn't stand as tall. Elizabeth’s discovery was like giving someone extra strong blocks to fix their tower so it stands tall and steady again.