Presentation

bromley · Post by **bromley** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:14 am

UK MS Presentation on Statins. They look promising but still issues to be resolved.

Ian

http://www.mssociety.org.uk/document.rm?id=1406

carolew · Post by **carolew** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:22 pm

Personally, I think that this is it!
No drug alone can do the job. It will have to be done in combination therapy. Just like chemotherapy. It is always a cocktail of drugs that are needed to stop a very aggressive type of cell damage. Not the same cause but some similarity in the destructive process.

JFH · Post by **JFH** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:16 am

But dont hold your breath Carole the last slide in the presentation says quite a lot

Statins may only have modest effects over extended periods which would require long-term (>5years) and large-scale trials. These would prove very expensive and therefore not attractive to the pharmaceutical industry. This is especially pertinent where statins have lost, or will soon lose, patent protection.

[My emphasis]

carolew · Post by **carolew** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:44 am

Actually, I just ment that this disease will need combo therapie to be effectively treated, not necessarily with statins in there...
It is too complex a disease. Carole