Word: interferon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beta interferon has not been yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Hedison said that Biogen plans to file with the FDA in the beginning...
...patients on beta interferon had a disease progression rate 40 percent slower than placebo patients. The exacerbation rate of the disease in patients who used beta interferon was also reduced by a third...
...study also found that the drug prolongs the first of multiple sclerosis' two stages. And since the second stage of the disease is usually terminal, beta interferon effectively increases the time it takes for severe disability to occur, the study found...
...drug, beta interferon, is the first product that has ever been developed that slows down the progression of disability," said Amy S. Hedison, the director of industrial relations at Biogen...
Medical School Associate Professor of Neurology David A. Hafler said he was under the impression that beta interferon was the same as betaseron, another drug produced by Biogen...