In Search of the Guiding Light: Revisiting the Use of Oral and High-efficacy Therapies in a Modern Era of Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

Well shit we have all these new therapies except for our fucking failures of stroke associations doing nothing for stroke. You are completely screwed.

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In Search of the Guiding Light: Revisiting the Use of Oral and High-efficacy Therapies in a Modern Era of Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

Pre-activity question 1 of 4

A 32-year-old woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) is well controlled on interferon beta-1a and would like to be switched to oral medications. Which advice would be most appropriate to give her?

• Patients who are well controlled on injectable drugs but switch to oral therapies are not at greater risk of early relapse.
• The rate of first relapse is much greater in the first 6 months when switching from injectable to oral medications.
• Disability progression is greater in the first 6 months when switching from injectable to oral medications.
• Oral medications are ineffective unless combined with injectable medicatio