Word: interferons
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...Beta interferon was patented about 10 years ago by Cambridge's Biogen...
...Jacobs' experiment, 301 patients with multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease in which nerves slowly deteriorate, were given either beta interferon or a placebo...
...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...