Surveying The Changing Multiple Sclerosis Landscape

The highly competitive multiple sclerosis market is in flux. With the US launch in October 2010 of Novartis AG's Gilenya, the first oral disease-modifying therapy for MS, patients and physicians have a more convenient once-daily therapy that looks to be as efficacious as first line injectables. But uncertainty concerning Gilenya's safety- not to mention the medicine's high price tag - means ample room exists for additional products in the MS armamentarium. To better understand how prescribers view the rapidly changing MS landscape, IN VIVO and Gerson Lehman Group conducted a survey of physicians in late January.