Remicade listing

August 5, 2010

AN EXTENSION to the PBS listing for Remicade (infliximab) will mean that more patients suffering from fistulising Crohn’s disease will be able to access the medication. The new guidelines no longer rely on the Crohn’s Disease Activity Index, which is weighted in favour of patients with luminal disease rather than perianal disease. A recent report in the Medical Journal of Australia found that about 30% of patients with clinically significant perianal Crohn’s disease didn’t qualify for PBS-subsidised anti-TNF medication under the previous criteria.

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