( HAWTHORNE N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4...)Acorda Therapeutics Presents Fampridine-SR Data at ACTRIMS Meeting,Health

HAWTHORNE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.(R) (Nasdaq: ACOR) today announced that the Company presented a "meta-analysis" or combined analysis of two clinical trials of Fampridine-SR in multiple sclerosis during a poster session at the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in MS (ACTRIMS) Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, June 2, 2007. The poster, "Validation of Consistent Improvement in Walking Speed on the Timed 25 Foot Walk as a Measure of Clinically Meaningful Change," was presented by Andrew Goodman, M.D., Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at the University of Rochester.

The objective of the analysis was to validate a consistent response criterion as a measure of clinically meaningful change. A consistent timed walk responder was defined as a subject whose walking speeds for at least three of the four on-treatment visits were faster than the fastest speed across any of their five non-treatment visits. In both studies, Fampridine-SR treatment was associated with significantly increased probability of this response compared to placebo (p less than 0.001). Both clinical trials were double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, multi-center studies. The analysis was designed after the data from the first study were available. A total of 501 patients were included in the analysis.

The clinical meaningfulness of this response criterion was assessed primarily by use of the 12-Item MS Walking Scale (MSWS-12), a questionnaire in which the patient rates the clinical impact of his or her walking disability on activities of daily life. Additional criteria for clinical meaningfulness included a seven-point Subject Global Impression (SGI) and a seven-point Clinician Global Impression (CGI). In the meta-analysis, timed-walk responders had significantly greater average improvements from baseline in the MSWS-12 score than the non-responders in both studies in
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