Archives for 2 May 2006
Interesting News on Humira…
Humira is a rheumatoid arthiritis drug (much like Remicade was) and has lately been applying for approval as treatment of Crohn’s patients.
Today when I was at the hospital receiving my dosage of Remicade, the nurse eluded to the difference between Humira and Remicade.
A) Humira is a weekly ’self-administered’ shot
B) Humira is NOT made of Mouse […]
New Crohn’s Treatment? CIMZIA(TM)
UCB announced the submission of a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for the approval of CIMZIA(TM) for treatment of Crohn’s Disease patients.
“Data from [a detailed study] demonstrated that within six weeks of initiating CIMZIA(TM), 64.1 percent of patients (428 of 668) achieved a clinical response as defined by greater than […]
