Biogen's News on new med trials

[choco]

http://www.msnewschannel.com/2015/05...s-therapy.html

[hunterd]

very interesting, very promising also. My fingers are crossed.

[tracibk]

that would be great.....fingers crossed!

[aactlis76]

this sounds amazing im in after 16yrs with MS something like this ghives me hope. i will pray on it.

[JerryD]

Yahoo !! Another news piece about something 'promising' in the drug pipeline. So hard to come by !

[REG53]

Thank you for in the infor. What a wonderful thing it will be if it indeed worked.

[jreagan70]

I agree that it will be wonderful if anti-Lingo-1 actually works.

The phase II results are promising, but nonetheless disappointing because none of the secondary endpoints were met. While there was an increase in nerve transmission speed demonstrated by VEP -- which indicates remyelination -- the test subjects showed no increase in visual function. The results were statistically significant but not clinically significant or relevant. So it doesn't matter if a test result showed improvement if the person doesn't get any benefit.

At best, phase II showed proof of concept. We'll have to wait until the phase III trial is over to find out how well it really works.

[JerryD]

Oh.. and the side effects are anal leakage, kidney failure and swelling of the genitalia. Otherwise, Biogen thinks it will be a great drug for the underserved minority MSer population ! lol