"Hope for young MS victims": Four doctors examined Melissa Harris before she got the correct diagnosis for her double vision: pediatric multiple sclerosis.
That was two years ago. After many visits to the University at Buffalo's Jacobs Neurological Institute, in Buffalo General Hospital, and treatment that included chemotherapy and now a disease-modifying drug called Rebif, the Fredonia 15-year-old is holding her own.

My balance is a little off, but not by much," she said....When Melissa was diagnosed at 13, her parents, Linda and Scott Harris, were stunned. But since the Fredonia Central High School sophomore began injecting herself with Rebif, one of a group of drugs called beta-interferons, her symptoms have not worsened. "She's doing wonderfully," her mother said. "She's a trouper."