New MS Treatment Giving Hope To Patients

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Theres a new treatment for MS patients whove tried everything and have yet to find something that works for them.

Its not cheap, but it is providing new hope for patients who feel like theyve run out of options.

Barbara Baird has had multiple sclerosis for 27 years.

I walk with a walker, Ive walked with a cane, she said, Ive been in a wheelchair, Ive been in bed. So Ive had a lot of different symptoms.

It used to be there were no medications to treat it. Over the past two decades, about a dozen medicines have come along. Shes tried them all to reduce inflammation and to soothe the immune system.

Now a new medication, originally used for cancer, has been FDA approved for MS. Its called Lemtrada.

Im hoping that this would be one that might work for me, said Baird.

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New MS Treatment Giving Hope To Patients