Merck KGaA said the European Commission or EC has approved extension of the indication of Rebif, a treatment for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis or MS. This EC approval, based on REFLEX study results, is for the use of Rebif 44 micrograms three times weekly in patients who have experienced a single demyelinating event, an early sign of the disease, and who are at high risk of converting to MS....Read More ...

Appears Merck is paying the doctors to prescribe their drug.

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I know that their website says that there were no effects in male monkeys... but my wife and i have been ttc for months now and nothing is happening. we got pregnant really fast the first time and i have one kid from a previous marriage but i started rebif this year. i have heard that rebif can lower your spe count and reduce motility... has anyone else had this problem??? some posts i have ...

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So I have been on the Rebif for about 4 months now... side effect wise it seems to be going well. Usually I get a headache the next morning which goes away with a couple Advil, and occassionally a slight fever in the afternoon. Definitely workable, not as unpleasant as to be honest I was expecting when I started the Rebif (though getting onto it was HELL).

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CHMP gives positive opinion for extended indication for Rebif® for patients with early signs Of MS



Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that it received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), for its variation application to extend the indication of Rebif (interferon beta-1a), its leading treatment for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). ...

Two surrogate markers commonly used in multiple sclerosis (MS) clinical trials are near-perfect measures of the effect of treatment with interferon, researchers reported.

In a statistical analysis of patients in a major clinical trial, the two markers -- T2 lesions seen on MRI and relapses -- accounted for all of the effect of interferon ß-1a on disease progression, according to Maria Pia Sormani, PhD, of the University of Genoa in Italy, and colleagues.

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Hello... I'm very new to the site and I usually don't share how I feel but here it goes! I was incarcerated six yrs ago and while in prison I experienced numbness they wrote it off as a stroke but this last year while at work I experienced the numbness again and after a week of being numb I went to my family dr. He said it looked like a stroke but did an mri ...

I have been on Rebif for about a year. I realize relapse can be pretty random but chances are one is going to happen relatively soon. If I feel I am having a relapse, should i inject the medication during the exacerbation?

i was diagnosed june 1, 2011 & im in my 3rd month of rebif.. & ive been noticing my hair has been getting VERY thin on the top ]: im only 24 & im NOT okay with this! what can i do to help to help stop this? i have a dr appointment @ the end of the month. i really would like to stay on rebif because im used to it & dont want ...

I am on this rebif, was on beterseron, that was when I first got sick, now I have seizures and these interferons cause seizures, now not everybody will get them, but I have a primary brain lesion which is big, I have three others, but they are small. I took a break from this rebif, don't remember having any problems, was started back on it ASAP. The first night I took that shot, that morning ...