secret OTC drug could help remyelination
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:14 am
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/M ... id=5517461
I wonder if this is a reaction to the patient activism surrounding CCSVI. The researcher is keeping the name of the over-the-counter drug secret so we don't all go out and try it.This researcher -- who I won't name because it could lead MS patients to hound him for immediate details -- said he had developed a high-throughput screen for drugs that could induce remyelination of MS-damaged nerve fibers.
Employed on 1,000 readily available drug compounds, the top hit turned out to be a nationally advertised drug available in supermarkets.
He mentioned it here during a talk at the American Neurological Association's annual meeting, and also that a clinical trial was set to begin soon. I caught up with him afterward, eager for details that I could put into a story. He expressed concern that putting the drug's name out where MS patients would see it could "contaminate" the trial. (Telling about it to a few hundred neurologists at a conference seemed safe, he said.)