Safety of potential breast milk exposure to IFN-β or glatiramer acetate
One-year infant outcomes
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- Received November 4, 2019
- Accepted in final form February 19, 2020
- First Published May 20, 2020.
Author Disclosures
- Andrea Ines Ciplea,
- Annette Langer-Gould, MD, PhD,
- Anna Stahl, MD,
- Sandra Thiel, PhD,
- Annette Queisser-Wahrendorf, MD,
- Ralf Gold, MD and
- Kerstin Hellwig, MD
- Andrea Ines Ciplea,
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(1) Sanofi-Genzyme, funding for travel (2) Teva, funding for travel (3) Novartis, funding for travel (4) Bayer Healthcare, speaker honoraria
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- Annette Langer-Gould, MD, PhD,
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My husband, Michael Gould, serves as the Deputy Editor for Annals of the American Thoracic Society for the past 2.5 years
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I am a voting panel member of California Technology Assessment Forum, a core program of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and have served as expert evaluator for ICER's evaluation of MS DMTs.
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My husband currently receives grant support from the NIH, PCORI and NCI
I received grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH NINDS RO1) and currently an award from PCORI
I received grant and contract support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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- Anna Stahl, MD,
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- Sandra Thiel, PhD,
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- Annette Queisser-Wahrendorf, MD,
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- Ralf Gold, MD and
(1) TEVA Laquinimod DSMB
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Speaker honoraria from Biogen, Genzyme, TEVA, Merckserono, BayerSchering,Celgene, Novartis
SAGE Journal TAND, Experimental Neurology
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From Roche From Merck From Bayer
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- Kerstin Hellwig, MD
(1) Novartis (2) Genzyme (3) Teva (4) Merck (5) Roche
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(1) Biogen, funding for travel (2) Novartis, funding for travel (3) Merck, funding for travel (4) Biogen Idec Germany, speaker honoraria (5) Teva, speaker honoraria (6) Sanofi Genzyme, speaker honoraria (7) Novartis, speaker honoraria (8) Bayer Healthcare, speaker honoraria (9) Merck Serono, speaker honoraria (10) Roche, speaker honoraria
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Honoraria from Biogen, Bayer Healthcare, Teva, Sanofi, Merck and Novartis
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Biogen, Bayer Healthcare, Teva, Merck, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme and Novartis
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- From the Department of Neurology (A.I.C., S.T., R.G., K.H.), St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum; Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy (A.I.C.), Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany; Department of Neurology (A.L.-G.), Southern California Permanente Medical Group/Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles Medical Center; Department of Paediatrics (A.S.), St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum; and Centre of Paediatrics and Youth Medicine (A.Q.-W.), Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
- Correspondence
Dr. Hellwig k.hellwig{at}klinikum-bochum.de
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