Biogen Idec: A Biotech Pioneer With A Stellar Future

FREE MS RESEARCH UPDATE: a comprehensive overview of research findings on all of the FDA-approved disease-modifying therapies, as well as many experimental treatments

This year's expanded MS Research Update incorporates new information about the approved disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), as well as numerous experimental drugs currently under investigation for the long-term treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Highlights and recent research results are provided for each drug. Please note that symptom-management drugs are not included in this report.
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Biogen Idec: A Biotech Pioneer With A Stellar Future

FDA panel supports approval of Sanofi's MS drug Lemtrada

FREE MS RESEARCH UPDATE: a comprehensive overview of research findings on all of the FDA-approved disease-modifying therapies, as well as many experimental treatments

This year's expanded MS Research Update incorporates new information about the approved disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), as well as numerous experimental drugs currently under investigation for the long-term treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Highlights and recent research results are provided for each drug. Please note that symptom-management drugs are not included in this report.
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Tony Bodmer, Columnist, MSnewsChannel.com

I was having 3-4 exacerbations a year.  They finally stopped on Rituxan! Gilenya has been continuing that role for two years now.

 I'm still on Gilenya, and still loving it.

I have been on a number of different MS drugs in the 9 years since I was diagnosed with MS.  Copaxone, Betaseron, Tysabri, and Rituxan.  Rituxan was the only one that really worked for me but, my neurologist didn't want me on it more than 3 years.  As she said, "After three years, who knows what else will be out"  Fortunately for me, after 3 years, Gilenya had just been put on the market.
  
When I took my last dose of Rituxan, I already knew the drug I wanted to try.  Of course there are potential side effects, but what drug doesn't have that?  I was just excited after years of shots and IV's to have an MS drug that was just one pill a day.  Definitely easier than a shot a day.

After about a month, I was noticing changes.  I know Gilenya, like all MS drugs, wouldn't treat symptoms, but I felt like it was.  Biggest change for me was my balance sud

THIS IS MY 1ST COLUMN: MS...What a Strange and Random Disease

Tony Bodmer, Columnist, MSnewsChannel.com
    
My name is Tony Bodmer and I am 34 years old.  This is my 1st Column!
I'm looking forward to writing more here and hopefully educating some people about MS.  I know I didn't know anything about it til the day I was diagnosed and there's too many people out there who are just not educated on what MS is. I was diagnosed with ms 9 years ago when I was 25.  The first 5 years were pretty bad until I was referred to an MS specialist by my neurologist.  She finally got me on a med that actually worked and, it's kind of leveled off now. I was diagnosed right when tysabri came out for the first time.  I had one infusion and three days before my 2nd infusion, it was taken off the market.