MS Research MS Medications and Treatments Links:
These links will help you find out more about medications or treatments which are available to persons with MS (PwMS or MSers):
- Avonex: Learn what's new about AVONEX and MS.
- Berlex Laboratories, Inc.: The BETASERON (Interferon Bet-1b) MS Resources center.
- Copaxone: COPAXONE (glatiramer acetate for injection) USA Web site, a resource dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis through information, education and support.
- Mitoxantrone: usually used, in combination with other drugs, as a type of chemotherapy to treat certain types of cancer. In recent years it has been used to treat some forms of MS. It is normally used in very active relapsing remitting or secondary progressive MS, where relapses are still a significant feature.
- Mitoxantrone and Copaxone Trial: The trial aims to identify better treatment approaches for people with "active" relapsing remitting MS.
- Modafinil (Provigil)
- MS Decisions: developed by the Task Force on Medicines Partnership in collaboration with specialists from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, the MS Society, the MS Trust, the MS Specialist Nurses Association and people with MS recruited from specialist neurology centres around the UK.
- NICE and the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions : guidelines for the NHS in England and Wales on the management of multiple sclerosis (MS).
- RxList: Search for drug names, keywords, imprint codes, and medical terminology from a single page.
- Serono: the world-wide biotech leader currently specializes in multiple sclerosis, fertility, growth and AIDS wasting.