In a recent study, ixekizumab proved safe and effective in treating adults with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and plaque psoriasis compared with adalimumab…
Ixekizumab Improves Outcomes of Ankylosing Spondylitis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Ixekizumab improves signs and symptoms in patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis), according to results from the COAST-W study. “Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic and debilitating disease, and I have a large number of patients who have failed TNF inhibitors,” says Dr. Atul Deodhar from Oregon Health and Science University, Portland….
Study Results for 9 New Psoriatic Arthritis Drugs
CHICAGO—As Eric Ruderman, MD, professor of medicine in rheumatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, began his talk on psoriatic arthritis treatment at the ACR State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium in April, he marveled a bit at how much there was to cover. Drugs gaining prominence in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and dermatological…
FDA Updates Ixekizumab Label to Include Genital Area Psoriasis
Ixekizumab is the first agent approved by the FDA for treating plaque psoriasis to include labeling for psoriasis in the genital area…
Ixekizumab Promising for AS; Plus Certolizumab Pegol Studied for Psoriasis
In a Phase 3 study, ixekizumab proved safe and effective to treat adults with ankylosing spondylitis (AS)…
EU Approves Marketing for Ixekizumab in Adults with PsA
In its second indication in the EU, ixekizumab has been approved by the European Commission to treat adults with active psoriatic arthritis…
Etanercept’s New Autoinjection System; Plus FDA Approves Ixekizumab for Active PsA
In the U.S., a new formulation and an ergonomic delivery system for single doses of etanercept are now available for RA patients…
Ixekizumab Eases Psoriatic Arthritis when TNF Inhibitor Fails
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—The selective interleukin-17A inhibitor ixekizumab improved signs and symptoms of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients who had failed prior biologic therapy in the phase 3 SPIRIT-P2 trial. The SPIRIT-P2 trial joins the earlier phase 3 SPIRIT-P1 trial, which showed that ixekizumab was safe and effective in PsA patients not previously treated…
Clinical Trial of Ixekizumab for Psoriatic Arthritis Shows Positive Results
A study found that ixekizumab decreases disease activity and increases physical function in biologic-naive patients with active psoriatic arthritis…
Research on Ixekizumab in Psoriatic Arthritis and More Presented at EULAR 2016
LONDON—Results from the extension phase of a Phase 3 trial for the IL-17A inhibitor ixekizumab in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) show that patients started on placebo, adalimumab and ixekizumab continued to show improvements in arthritis, dactylitis and ethesitis, said Philip Mease, MD, a rheumatologist at Swedish Medical Center University of Washington in Seattle.1 Dr. Mease presented the…