A drug which is said to "reboot" the immune system has been shown to be an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), a study has found.
Now the MS Society is campaigning for the drug to be available on the NHS.
The research showed that alemtuzumab significantly reduced the number of attacks or relapses compared to current drug interferon beta-1a. There are at least 10,000 people with MS in Scotland.
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