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Biosimilar For Arthritis Approved

FDA Approves Second Arthritis Biosimilar – Biosimilar Version of Drug Enbrel

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved etanercept-szzs (brand name: Erelzi), a biosimilar form of etanercept (Enbrel), to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis as well as plaque psoriasis. Earlier this year, infliximab-dyyb (Inflectra), a biosimilar version of infliximab (Remicade), became the first FDA-approved biosimilar for inflammatory types of arthritis in the U.S.
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FDA Approves First Biosimilar for Arthritis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Inflectra – a so-called biosimilar version of the biologic Remicade (infliximab) – to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) as well as psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease. It is the first biosimilar approved in the U.S. for autoimmune, inflammatory conditions, including RA, PsA and AS, and only the second biosimilar approved by the agency to date. (A drug used in cancer treatment, filgrastim-sndz, sold as Zarxio, was approved in March 2015.)
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