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Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABPI) announced today that researchers from Johns Hopkins University have published encouraging results from a two-year study evaluating the treatment of aggressive relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis with Revimmune(TM), Accentia's patent-pending, novel usage of an approved chemotherapeutic drug (cyclophosphamide) in an ultra-high dose, pulsed intravenous administration for four hours daily over four days. Administered in this fashion,...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Peptimmune, Inc. a privately held biotechnology company, announced that physicians have treated the first participant in a clinical trial to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of PI-2301 in subjects with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (SP-MS). PI-2301 is a novel peptide copolymer for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. The Phase Ib multiple-ascending dose, double-blind,...

BaroFold Inc. announced today that it has initiated a two-stage Phase 1, repeat dosing, single-center, double-blinded study in up to sixty healthy volunteers to determine the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of escalating doses of BaroFeron(TM) (IFN beta-1b). In published preclinical studies BaroFeron demonstrated enhanced pharmacological properties, both pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, when compared to commercial interferon beta products. BaroFeron has...

MADISON, Wis., April 7, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- As announced in the March 7th issue of the Wisconsin State Journal, Dr. John Fleming, a leading neurologist at the UW Hospital, is initiating an investigator-initiated IND clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of Trichuris suis ova (TSO) in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Dr. Fleming's trial is funded by the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and is the first of its kind within the United States. The concept of using TSO therapy...

Data from a 16-year follow-up study of 174 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients was presented at the 23rd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS). The study demonstrates significant clinical benefits on both disability and relapse rates in patients continuously treated with COPAXONE® (glatiramer acetate injection) for an average of 8 years. The majority of patients (84.8 percent) in the ongoing cohort (n=112),...

By Bill Berkrot NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Copaxone reduced relapses by 75 percent in both new patients and those who had not done well on the older Schering AG medicine Betaseron, according to a large study. The open label 805-patient study did not compare the two drugs but tested Copaxone in both new patients with relapsing-remitting MS and those who had taken Betaseron, but discontinued its use for a variety of reasons. In...

By Deena BeasleyLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A high dose of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone is more effective at limiting relapses and brain lesions than the standard dose, without more side effects, researchers said on Wednesday."For some people a higher dose may work better," said Dr. Jeffrey Cohen of the Cleveland Clinic's MS research center and lead investigator of a small nine-month trial comparing the two doses.The study, funded by...

By Karla Gale NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Tysabri, a drug made by Biogen Idec and Elan Pharmaceuticals, significantly reduces the rate of disease progression in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to the results of two trials reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine. "The available drugs for MS, interferon and Copaxone, have been shown in trials to reduce relapse rate by one third," Dr. Richard A. Rudick, of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio,...

By Anne HardingNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bee sting therapy is not effective in treating the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), and does not improve quality of life, according to the first controlled study to investigate the alternative treatment in MS patients.Patients with MS should not undergo bee venom therapy "unless better evidence to justify its use becomes available," warn Dr. Jacques De Keyser of the University Medical Center Groningen in The Netherlands and colleagues...