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Magnate
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Heah!
Posts: 2,921
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Magnate
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Heah!
Posts: 2,921
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This study was commissioned because patients wanted NICE to pay for Tysabri along with other DMDs. The EU refuses to pay for drugs with low efficacy and forces people to use the most efficacious drug by not paying for lesser efficacy drugs.
Guess what they are paying for?
Tysabri.
I believe they settled on paying for Betaseron in addition to Tysabri and they may be paying for the other DMDs still, but the whole thing started with them not wanting to pay for Tysabri.
This study is now being used on the chefartzfrau web blog of the man who's wife died from PML in Germany, as a negative about Tysabri. I'm not sure if he understands the irony of what he has posted.
FYI Dej, Tysabri is not an interferon based treatment. It is a humanized monoclonal antibody.
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I know the sound the river makes, by dawn, by night, by day. But can it stay me through tomorrows that find me far away?
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I have this mental picture in my mind of you all, shaking bones and bells and charms, muttering prayers and voodoo curses, dancing around in a circle of salt, with leetle glasses and tiny bottles of cheer in the middle...myyyyyy friends!
diagnosed 09/03/2004
scheduled to start Tysabri 03/05
Tysabri withdrawn from market 02/28/05
Copaxone 05/05-12/06
Tysabri returned to market 06/05/06
Found a new neuro 04/07
Tysabri 05/25/07-present
Medical Marijuana legally 12/03/09
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Negative for JC virus antibodies!
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I'm doing alright and making good grades,
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!
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