Yahoo Finance Press Release – Source: BioTrends Research Group, Inc. On Tuesday December 21, 2010,
EXTON, Pa., Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — BioTrends Research Group, Inc. finds that while neurologists in the EU tend to prescribe the established interferon betas as their first line disease modifying agents (DMAs) for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, they are most satisfied with Biogen/Elan’s Tysabri. Prescribing of both Tysabri and Novartis’s recently launched DMA, Extavia, is anticipated to increase over the next six months with Bayer’s Betaferon suffering the most in terms of market share loss. Despite these expected changes, neurologists clearly associate most of the DMAs with a certain MS patient type and their reported prescribing reflects these preference patterns.
The recently released TreatmentTrends®: Multiple Sclerosis in the European Union report finds that neurologists in the U.K. have less clinical experience with many of the DMAs, prescribe DMAs to a smaller percentage of their MS patients, and are detailed less than their counterparts in France, Germany, Italy andSpain. In line with these regional differences, neurologists in the U.K. report relying on different attributes when making their DMA prescribing decisions and identify different unmet needs for DMAs in development compared to neurologists from the other EU regions.
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