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Aug 2020
Experimental drug offers hope to MS sufferers
Experts are hopeful that life-changing treatment for multiple sclerosis may be on the horizon, after signs of the disease completely disappeared in nine out of ten patients treated with an experimental drug.
During the trial, around 900 volunteer patients were given injections of ofatumumab, a drug developed to alter the immune system, over the course of an average of around one and a half years.
Results showed that within the first twelve months of treatment, patients were experiencing fewer flare-ups and their bloods showed significantly fewer signs of inflammation. By the second year of treatment, nearly 90 per cent were showing no symptoms whatsoever.
Although the disease is not technically fatal, there is currently no cure, and for many patients, flare-ups worsen over time and can become debilitating.
There are currently over 2.3 million people around the world who live with MS and up until the last 20 years, nothing stood in the way of the progression of the disease.
Study author Dr Stephen Hauser of the University of California and who has worked on MS treatment for decades, said of the trial “Given the effectiveness we saw in this study with near-complete elimination of inflammation and scarring in myelin-rich areas of the brain, along with the minimal side effects, the use of either of these therapies is most attractive as first-line treatment for most MS patients.”
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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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