About The Disease
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a devastating inflammatory neurologic disease in which white matter, known as myelin, is damaged—causing episodic or neurological symptoms. The destruction of myelin inhibits communications between the nerves in the brain.
Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis include extreme fatigue, numbness, weakness, difficulty with eyesight, spasticity, speech problems, and problems with coordination. Multiple Sclerosis has its greatest incidence in young adults and patients are usually diagnosed at less than 55 years of age at the onset of the illness.
The cause of Multiple Sclerosis is unknown, although the disease is believed to be an autoimmune problem triggered by a virus—meaning that the patient’s immune cells attack and destroy the patient’s myelin. In the United States, there are approximately 400,000 patients diagnosed with MS and approximately 200 new patients are diagnosed every week1. Globally, Multiple Sclerosis is believed to effect 2.1 million people, mostly of European origin.
Conventional Method of Treatment
‘ABC’ drugs Avonex, Beta-Seron, Copaxone are used to treat Multiple Sclerosis but have been shown to barely beat out placebos in efficacy and are not approved in England for government subsidy. The drug Tysabri was deemed dangerous and was taken off the market for over a year, before being reintroduced.
Another treatment of MS is high dose steroids; though, this treatment simply decreases symptoms without curing MS.
The Halberd Corporation Solution
Our proprietary Feldetrex™ candidate drug will not compete with typical treatment methods for Multiple Sclerosis, but rather, is simply an add-on drug to increase the effectiveness of treatment.