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To: fred hayes who wrote (3667)12/2/2002 10:18:49 AM
From: William Partmann  Respond to of 10345
 
I suppose it depends on how they defined major benefit or if they were addressing the antegren trials at all.

Bill



To: fred hayes who wrote (3667)12/2/2002 11:16:15 AM
From: nigel bates  Respond to of 10345
 
The review paper addresses the issues better than I am likely to. You can download it at -

rcpe.ac.uk

I'm not arguing whether the conclusions are correct or otherwise, but it seems worth considering.



To: fred hayes who wrote (3667)12/2/2002 11:24:07 AM
From: fred hayes  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10345
 
Bill, Nigel, Rick: Nigel's ref looks VERY important.

Anxious to hear from whoever can put more perspective on this. The pdf file in Nigel's link challenges the entire basis of current MS treatment, including Avonex. I'm bracing for a major hit on BGEN today. Hoping that Antegren may be outside the scope of the challenge this paper is making...

fred



To: fred hayes who wrote (3667)12/2/2002 12:30:55 PM
From: Harold Engstrom  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 10345
 
Fred,

Everyone already agrees that current drugs are not a cure - just delaying action that mitigates symptoms.

Rigorous studies have shown that interferons and other treatments benefit MS sufferers to some degree.

Biogen and others would probably be the first to admit that they do not understand what causes MS.

IMO, the article is interesting, but does not represent a shift in thinking about current treatment regimens.

Harold