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Celgene Corp. recently disclosed that its drug candidate, apremilast, for treating patients with moderate-to-severe plaque-type psoriasis, met key goals in a mid-stage study .

Expensive advertising of prescription drugs directly to consumers may do little to encourage sales, U.S. and Canadian researchers reported on Monday.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients who regularly adhere to their prescription drug regimen have fewer emergency room and doctor visits and incur lower medical costs, according to research presented today by Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

After she was diagnosed with psoriasis in 1992, at the age of 17, Sherrina Navani tried just about a oeeverything and anythinga -natural remedies, topical treatments, prescription drugs such as methotrexate-to heal the cracking, bleeding plaques that covered 90% of her body.

Alkermes, Inc. and Acceleron Pharma, Inc. today announced that Alkermes has licensed a proprietary long-acting Fc fusion technology platform, called the Medifusion technology, which is designed to extend the circulating half-life of proteins and peptides.

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After decades of suffering as her body gnarled and stiffened from rheumatoid arthritis, Bonnie Cramer began taking a new drug around 2002.It wasn't a pill, but an injection - a medicine derived from the living cells of a small hamster, blended with human DNA and whipped into a brew that Cramer shot into her body twice a week.The morning after she ...

After decades of suffering as her body gnarled and stiffened from rheumatoid arthritis, Bonnie Cramer began taking a new drug around 2002.

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Although Stelara is entering a crowded treatment room for psoriasis, this first-in-class interleukin inhibitor could put the "no more tears" back in J&J's future - if successfully marketed to specialists, in particular dermatologists, as it is a novel and less cumbersome injectable than established biologics for psoriasis, the tumor necrosis ...

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WALTHAM,A Mass. Biotech companies that manufacture a class of drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders stand to lose more than $9 billion in Europe and the United States by 2018 thanks to competition from biosimilars, according to a report.

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that 98 percent of surveyed rheumatologists indicate they will prescribe Roche's Actemra, an interleukin-6 inhibitor, for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis following the agent's expected launch in 2010.

A Swedish study has concluded that rheumatoid arthritis patients did not experience an increased cancer risk in the first 6 years of treatment with TNF blockers .

During the past decade, a new class of drugs, called TNF inhibitors, has improved the lives of tens of thousands of people who suffer from painful autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and Crohn's disease.

Oct. 29, 2009 -- Rheumatoid arthritis patients who take the biologic drugs Remicade , Humira , and Enbrel do not appear to have an increased risk for developing cancer in the first few years of use, researchers in Sweden report.

Treatment with tumor necrosis factor blockers doesn't increase rheumatoid arthritis patients' risk of cancer, new research has found.

A recent study by Swedish researchers found that rheumatoid arthritis patients did not experience an elevated cancer risk in the first 6 years after starting anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy.