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Thursday, 14 March 2013

Combination Therapy Provides Similar Clinical Benefit as Single Drug Treatment in MS: Research

According to an international research team, people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were treated with combination therapy did not see significant clinical benefit over those treated with single drug therapy, but combination therapy did reduce the development of new lesions. The research team was led by The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The findings, part of the largest-ever MS trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, are published in the March 11 issue of iAnnals ...


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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Relapse Risk Does Not Reduce If Common MS Drugs Are Taken Together: Clinical Trial

Interferon (and) #946;-1a (INF) and glatiramer acetate (GA), two of the most commonly prescribed drugs for multiple sclerosis (MS), provide no additional clinical benefit when taken together finds a recent clinical trial. While findings published today in iAnnals of Neurology/i, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, suggest that taking both INF and GA together was not superior to GA monotherapy in reducing relapse risk; the combination ...


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