Lainie wrote:
I welcome any new drug that could be effective. It's not their fault that the author who wrote the headline is an idiot.
Great point, Lainie
This new compound hastens remyelination. It's being developed for stage 1 clinical trial by 2014, and supported by Cleveland Clinic, the Myelin Repair Foundation and the NMSS--and there is collaborative effort going into it. All good things. But not a cure.
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If a drug could be developed that would actually repair the formation of myelin, I believe it would be used in combination with those anti-inflammatory therapies. It would not compete. It would be an add-on that would expand the number of treatment options currently available for MS patients."
Not all patients are eligible to receive anti-inflammatory treatments, Trapp said. But all MS patients would qualify for a myelin repair therapy, he said.
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