Almost 1 in 5 People Wrongly Diagnosed with MS at Two Specialized Centers in US, Study Finds
We know that MS is a difficult disease to diagnose, but is it really possible that 20 percent of the MS diagnoses are wrong? Apparently so. This study reports that these misdiagnosed people spent an average of four years under specialized MS care at two centers in California before being correctly diagnosed.
Almost one in five patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and referred to one of two MS-specialized centers in the U.S. were found to not have the disease, a study at those two centers reported. Migraine was the most common correct diagnosis eventually given these people.
The retrospective study “Incidence of multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis in referrals to two academic centers” was published in the journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.
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Continuous Use of Gilenya for Up to 3 Years Can Lead to 50% Drop in Annual Relapse Rates, Real-world Study Says
This nonclinical study didn’t compare Gilenya (fingolimod) to a different disease-modifying therapy. Instead, it followed patients treated with Gilenya and compared the number of their relapses before treatment with the number after treatment began. The news seems very positive. Note, however, that three of the seven researchers collecting the data for this study work for Novartis, the pharmaceutical company that manufacturers Gilenya.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who began treatment with Gilenya (fingolimod) and stayed with it continuously showed a more than 50 percent reduction in annual relapse rates, a real-world study following these people for up to three years found.
Results were reported in the study “Real-world durability of relapse rate reduction in patients with multiple sclerosis receiving fingolimod for up to 3 years: a retrospective US claims database analysis,” published in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences.
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