Cherie, I retract my statement. Looking back over the thread more carefully, I see what you mean. There were attacks.

I've found a couple of ways to delete a thread, I think. One or the other of them will probably work:

1 - In the first post in the thread, click on "Edit." There is a button for "Delete." If you click "Delete," your first post will be deleted AND the entire thread might also be deleted.

2 - At the bottom of the screen, click on "Contact Us" and let the Administrator(s) know you'd like to delete the thread.

Joan,
Thanks. But that only works if no replies have been added and by the time I tried to correct the situation, it was not doable. Also, since this forum does not yet have Moderators, you are not able to contact one to eliminate a thread.

I've done what I could to remove any inflammatory or controversial things I may have posted. Problem is, people don't read an entire thread and add to the last comment or two and it keeps the ball rolling

Oddly enough, I bumped into this thread doing a Google search.

Cherie, I believe you did properly attribute the scale ... to Kurtzke. Although I don't have the paper, I believe this scale (and its description) was drawn from Kurtzke's 1983 paper that Lady Express cited.

In any event, this scale is quoted in a multitude of published papers as "the Kurtzke scale" sometimes without any other attribution. Kurtzke is given credit.

Mark

Actually, the scale is so commonly known and used in the medical community that it's now part of the public domain and doesn't need to be attributed at all. Certainly Paul Jones didn't write it.

Here's a link to a very quick history of the EDSS:

http://www.betaferon.com/start.jsp?/...ngms/scale.jsp

Please note that I did *not* design the site, write the materials, or have any part in the photography, layout, or choice of models.