Neurology® Podcast

1) Rising cost of multiple sclerosis drugs in the U. S. and 2) Topic of the month: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. David Jones interviews Dr. Daniel Hartung about his paper on the rising cost of multiple sclerosis drugs in the U. S. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Walker-Warburg syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Andy Mammen about the topic of treatment overview of immunotherapy for the immune-mediated myopathies. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Jones, Hartung, Numis, Burns and Mammen.Dr. Jones has received personal compensation for attending consultant meetings for Biogen Idec, Novartis and Genzyme Corporation.Dr. Hartung serves on the data safety monitoring board for Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; is a consultant