Novartis drug shows strong data in SJIA/CAPS

3 November 2008

Swiss drug major Novartis has presented Phase III data demonstrating that ACZ885 (canakinumab) achieved clinical remission after just one dose in patients with a group of rare, life-threatening auto-inflammatory diseases called cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes, at the American College of Rheumatology meeting in San Francisco. In addition, preliminary results of a Phase I/II study in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis showed that most patients treated with ACZ885 achieved substantial clinical improvement within 15 days.

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