More than 350,000 people in the United States alone live every day of their lives with Multiple Sclerosis. The Multiple Sclerosis Medicines they choose becomes as much a part of their life as eating and sleeping.  For many decades now, the available Multiple Sclerosis Medicines have been not much more than re-inventions of old drugs, with pretty much the same results for patients as the drugs they replace. While the costs have gone up and the choices of drug names have expanded, relief for the patient really hasn’t improved all that much.  But in recent years, new MS medicines have started to look at fresh approaches to treating MS that go beyond just treating symptoms and trying to reduce relapse rates.

The first breakthrough came several years ago, with FDA approval of the first oral MS Medicines.  Since that first oral drug approval, MS medicines seem to be improving at …