This is the first of the MS Society Awareness Talks available to watch on the internet. This lecture covered improvements in understanding the disease process in MS, treatments and services currently available in the UK, and a wide-ranging coverage of new research into treatments for MS.

You can watch the film of the talk in sections on YouTube, or read the transcript of the lecture together with the slides. You may find it useful to download the relevant slides as they are not always clear on the video.

Watch the talk on YouTube

If you would like to just view all of the video segments, please use the link above and go our playlist page on YouTube.  

Read the transcript, slides and watch the video together

To make it easier to follow, we separated the transcript for the talk into the following 13 manageable sections:

• 01. Introduction
• 02. Understanding the disease process
• 03. Diagnosis
  
  
• 04. Treatment
• 05. Mitoxantrone
• 06. Introduction to Tysabri
• 07. Campath
• 08. Evolution of DMDs
• 09. More on Tysabri
• 10. Drugs for PPMS
• 11. Oral agents
  
  
• 12. Future directions for treatment
• 13. Broader perspectives

 

Online question and answer session

  Alan answered questions online regarding disease modifying drugs for MS Society discussion board users from the 29th January to the 2nd of February 2007. Click on the above link to read some of the questions.