As of this date, there is still no cure for MS.  Multiple new drugs and therapies have been approved over the last few decades, but Multiple Sclerosis IFN injections still show the highest success rate, in general, for most patients. To deal with the demyelination process with MS, IFN – beta drugs demonstrate the most efficacies.  These are commonly referred to as the ABC treatments – A being Avonex, B standing for Betaseron and C for Copaxone. Copaxone is not a Multiple Sclerosis IFN beta, however, even though it is usually lumped in with the other two – maybe just because the acronym is easier to remember. But in reality, it should be ABCR – where R stands for Rebif, which is also an MS IFN beta.

What is the Multiple Sclerosis IFN treatment really referring to?

Beta Interferon is of two types, beta interferon-1a and beta interferon-1b.  …