It can be used in combination with disease-modifying drugs such as methotrexate.
This is the first oral disease-modifying drug for multiple sclerosis.
"It's not a good reason to throw out their disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs."
Since then, he's religiously taken the disease-modifying drugs designed to hold MS at bay, and hasn't had another attack in nearly 10 years.
All patients in the group were receiving disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and were clinically stable.
And that she did - with disease-modifying drugs that helped curb the damaging inflammation at her joints.
"It's the most important disease-modifying drug we have."
Research shows that these disease-modifying drugs can decrease the rate of relapses by about 30%.
You should be taking a disease-modifying drug, such as interferon beta, as well.
Doctors can now choose from eight disease-modifying drugs, which reduce relapses and thereby slow the progression of the disease.