Biosimilar Drug Updates Reported from EULAR

Patients received either BOW015 or rIFX as 3 mg/kg intravenously (IV) every eight weeks—at Weeks 0, 2, 6 and 14. Patients then received open-label BOW015 through Week 54. At Week 16, clinically significant improvements from baseline were noted for both scores in both treatment groups. Significant reductions in DAS and disability were maintained throughout the study’s open-label phase to week 54.

Michele B. Kaufman, PharmD, CGP, RPh, is a freelance medical writer based in New York City and a pharmacist at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

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