title: Treatment update in multiple sclerosis.
abstract: Multiple sclerosis is the most common cause of disability in young people in the Western world. Reduced life expectancy and worsening quality of life due to increasing disability later in the disease course have significant personal and societal costs. Changes in treatment strategies and newly available treatments hope to improve the outlook for our often young patients. This paper details currently available treatments and some that are expected to reach the market shortly.
authors.affiliation: Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Burwest, Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. katrina.morris@gmail.com
authors.forename: Katrina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: Con
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yiannikas
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D017281:Cost of Illness; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D016896:Treatment Outcome