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The Food and Drug Administration warned yesterday that a handful of medications commonly prescribed to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses can raise the risk of fatal fungal infections.The drugs are called Enbrel, Remicade, Humira and Cimzia. They treat arthritis by suppressing the immune system to keep it from attacking the body. The treatment provides relief from swollen and painful joints, but it's "a double-edged sword," said the FDA's Dr. Jeffrey Siegel....
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that robust annual five percent growth through 2017 in the ulcerative colitis drug market will be driven by strong uptake of Abbott/Eisai's Humira, Centocor/Schering-Plough/Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma/Janssen's golimumab and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Orencia, following the expected approvals and launches of these three biologic agents...
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market HUMIRA(R) (adalimumab) as a treatment for adult patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis, an autoimmune disease characterized by skin lesions that are sometimes painful and itchy. HUMIRA has been approved for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic...
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott has received a 2007 Chicago Innovation Award for its m2000(TM) molecular diagnostic instrument (http://www.abbott.com/global/url/content/en_US/60.15:15/feature/Feature_0021.htm ) and the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 viral load test, the most sensitive test of its kind capable of detecting and precisely measuring all known strains of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Abbott's RealTime HIV-1 test, approved for use in the United...
By Diedtra Henderson, The Boston Globe Feb. 19--WASHINGTON -- For patients suffering from a severe form of Crohn's disease, a remedy already on the shelf to treat other maladies and a brand-new drug could offer new hope. Within days, Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories expects to win federal approval to sell its drug, Humira, currently used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and a disease that causes arthritis of the spine, to combat the intestinal disorder. The new...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For adults with early, aggressive rheumatoid arthritis (RA), treatment with a combination of Humira (adalimumab) and methotrexate appears to be more effective than treatment with either agent alone, according to results of the PREMIER study. Humira is a human antibody designed to block a protein known as tumor necrosis factor, which plays a key role in inflammation. So-called TNF-blockers such as Humira have brought relief to many people with inflammatory...
