Monday May 04, 2009
Tablet to treat multiple sclerosis seen as huge step forward
Denis Campbell
The Guardian
Campaigners for the 85,000 Britons with multiple sclerosis yesterday welcomed the emergence of a drug promising to greatly alleviate symptoms of the debilitating disease.
Trials of cladribine found that it offers significant benefit to the estimated 55,000 people who have relapsing-remitting MS, its commonest form, with alternating periods of good and bad health but a decline, sometimes into total paralysis, when the gaps between spells start to shorten.
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