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02-28-2007, 06:37 PM
| | |  J.K. Rowling fights for MS patients
J.K. Rowling, patron of the MS Society Scotland, spoke out yesterday against the Scottish Medicines Consortium’s decision to ban use of the drug Tysabri to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), due to its high cost. Quote:
I know from personal experience that MS can have a devastating effect on everyone who comes into contact with it. My mother suffered terribly with MS and it was so frustrating that there was little or nothing doctors could do to help her.
If a drug can help tackle MS - particularly the very aggressive type of relapsing MS we are talking about - it should not be ruled out because of cost alone.
Once again, decisions about treatment are being made by accountants rather than clinicians, and I hope MSPs will speak up on behalf of the thousands of families affected by MS across Scotland.
Tysabri, which costs £15,000 per year, is prescribed as a last resort for patients who have not had success with any other form of treatment.
According to Mark Hazelwood, director of the MS Society Scotland: Quote:
People affected by MS in Scotland should have the same access to treatments as their counterparts in Ireland, Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere.
More that 10,000 people are now taking this drug worldwide, but we are barely out of the starting blocks.
Ironically, Scotland has the highest rate of MS worldwide, with one in 500 people afflicted with the disease. Nearly 1,000 of them could potentially benefit from Tysabri.  | |
02-28-2007, 06:43 PM
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Go Jo for speaking out  first to post
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02-28-2007, 06:53 PM
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| | Gnome
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im rite behind ya!!!!
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02-28-2007, 07:29 PM
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| | Billywig
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Go Jo ! | |
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02-28-2007, 07:41 PM
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| | Erumpent
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Good For Jo. I'm glad she is letting her voice be heard. I hope that everything turns out okay. | |
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02-28-2007, 07:42 PM
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| | Romanian Longhorn
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It's great to know that Jo's acting for a cause ^^ I wish her the best of luck with it!
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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02-28-2007, 07:51 PM
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|  DA's Ultimate FanFirecrab
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I couldn't agree more!!! Great of her to use her fame to help out such a great cause!! Best of luck with it!! This just further illustrates why JKR is sooo greaat!!
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02-28-2007, 07:56 PM
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| | Puffskein
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Go Jo!!! Nicola
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02-28-2007, 07:56 PM
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I agree with Jo! Its great she is standing up for people and using her fame to help others  Who cant ignore the great Rowling? I wish her good luck with her cause  | |
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02-28-2007, 07:59 PM
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| | Hippogriff
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Thats great to hear she's sticking up for those with MS again. I wish her all the best.
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02-28-2007, 08:05 PM
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Go Jo!!! 
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02-28-2007, 08:09 PM
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| | Kneazle
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Jo is amazing! 
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02-28-2007, 08:17 PM
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| | Billywig
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Way to stand up to it Jo!
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02-28-2007, 08:30 PM
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| | Norwegian Ridgeback
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it better not be banned!! i need all the meds i can get!!
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02-28-2007, 08:43 PM
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its amazing that Jo's speaking out for stuff like this. It shouldnt be banned just becuase of its cost!
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02-28-2007, 08:55 PM
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| | Jobberknoll
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Go Jo!!! | |
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02-28-2007, 09:41 PM
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| | Nogtail
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I agree here. I feel very sorry for Jo, since her mother died with such pain left for her and the doctors.
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02-28-2007, 09:49 PM
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| | Ashwinder
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It's great the Jo cares so much. She's really an absolutely wonderful person! | |
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02-28-2007, 10:02 PM
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Thank you Jo!
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02-28-2007, 10:06 PM
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Way to go Jo!!!!
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02-28-2007, 10:10 PM
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Not only is she talented but really nice to....I love her 
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02-28-2007, 10:37 PM
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Wow Jo!!! GO JO!!! | |
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02-28-2007, 10:57 PM
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| Keeper of Ginny's AttitudeBatty Bella Knarl
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wow go jo!
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02-28-2007, 11:27 PM
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| | Puffskein
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Wow, go Jo! That's great.
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02-28-2007, 11:43 PM
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| Forever Refreshing Porlock
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I agree with her, though. I mean... they're going to give up lives just so they can save money. It's stupid!
Go JK!
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