A new com­pa­ny en­ters the Tec­fidera fight, of­fer­ing to kill two birds

The rem­e­dy for the most com­mon side ef­fect for one of the most com­mon mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis drugs is sim­ple: as­pirin.

Tak­ing as­pirin with Bio­gen’s Tec­fidera will re­duce the flush, a some­times painful form of red skin ir­ri­ta­tion, many pa­tients ex­pe­ri­ence. The prob­lem is that the as­pirin has to be tak­en at least 30 min­utes be­fore Tec­fidera, turn­ing a sim­ple twice-a-day, one-dose oral drug in­to a stag­gered two-drug reg­i­men.

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