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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 1:56 am

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A new oral drug to treat the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, which has been licensed and deemed cost-effective here, remains unavailable to sufferers.

The final stage in the HSE’s process before which it could be prescribed was “neither fair nor transparent”, a leading neurologist has said.

Prof Orla Hardiman, consultant neurologist at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, said the MS drug Gilenya had been assessed and deemed cost-effective at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE) in St James’s Hospital, Dublin.

Any pharmacological company seeking to have a new drug reimbursed for patients under the Community Drugs Schemes must first have its cost-effectiveness assessed by the centre.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1309

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