Remicade Still Going Strong At 7 Years for RA | Arthritis Information

 

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Infliximab (Remicade^®, Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc) remains effective and safe for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment even after 7 years of use by patients refractory to DMARDs, researchers reported at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatology (EULAR) meeting.¹

“Our most important finding is that long-term use of infliximab appears to be safe,” said presenter and lead investigator Bert Vander Cruyssen, MD, PhD, post-doctoral fellow at the Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium. “We saw no new safety issues after 7 years of infiximab treatment, and we found that most safety issues appeared in the first 2 years of infliximab treatment,” he added.

 

http://www.mskreport.com/articles.cfm?articleID=3367

Bumping for the newbies..........Thanks Lynn, that's comforting to know because I am thinking of adding it my list of meds. Remicade really turned my life around after suffering for so many years.  I was on and off of it so many times though, it stopped being as effective as it once was.  I am not nearly as satisfied with Orencia as I was with the Remicade.
[QUOTE=GG]Thanks Lynn, that's comforting to know because I am thinking of adding it my list of meds. [/QUOTE]