Biosimilar of costly inflammatory bowel disease therapy found safe and effective

Treatment of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis has been greatly improved by the introduction of biologic therapies such as infliximab , but at considerable cost. A recent analysis of results from 11 published studies including 829 patients shows that a new and lower-cost biosimilar for infliximab-called CT-P13 -has excellent clinical efficacy and safety.